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Moms in their 30’s

Blood in urine, no UTI

I am 3-1/2 weeks postpartum. My vaginal bleeding has stopped but I noticed two days ago that there’s blood in my urine. I am 99% certain it’s in my urine and not vaginal (there is no blood in my underwear, and when I wipe before peeing there is no blood. I can see the blood in my urine stream, usually 2 or 3 drops at thee end of the stream, and blood on the toilet paper when I wipe after the pee). I explained all of this to my OB, but she brushed it off as vaginal and ordered a culture “just to be sure”. No dipstick, just the culture to test for bacterial infection.

I have had many UTIs before and I could already tell you before the results came back that I don’t have a UTI. Sure enough, the culture was negative, but here I am still bleeding.

Has this happened to anyone else? Could it be catheter trauma? Would that even still be happening 3 weeks postpartum? How do I convince my OB to look into this further and “prove” it’s not vaginal? I asked Reddit too, and the first person that commented also told me it’s probably vaginal. Its frustrating that I can’t prove that it’s not, but I know my body and I know what vaginal blood looks like on the toilet paper and this is notably different.