My wife went through this years ago after our second kid. She had a bleeding pattern that was clearly not right, and she’d kept a meticulous log of it. Dates, times, an objective scale she’d made up. Real data.
The OB glanced at it, nodded, and then drew a CBC. A week later the nurse calls: everything’s normal. Case closed. My wife tried to bring up the log again and was told it was likely just “normal postpartum variation.” The entire exchange was a category error.
It treated a single snapshot lab draw as the source of truth, and her detailed time-series data as subjective noise. It’s the reverse. A single hemoglobin number tells you where you were at 10:15 AM on a Tuesday. Her