Why IV Iron?
Built for Princeton women
You delivered at Princeton Medical Center six months ago. Your ferritin came back at 18 at your six-week visit. Your OB said "try oral iron." You're still doing Princeton Public Schools drop-offs on four hours of sleep, juggling Northeast Corridor commutes to NYC or Philly, and your hair is coming out in the shower. Or maybe you're not postpartum at all maybe you're faculty at the university or a researcher at one of the biotechs off Route 1, and you've been tracking your own ferritin for years.
Most Princeton women we see are postpartum, dealing with years of heavy cycles, or clinically literate professionals who arrive already knowing whether they want Venofer®, Injectafer, or Monoferric. They end up in the ferritin "gray zone" — iron stores between 15 and 30 ng/mL, where bloodwork looks normal but exhaustion is real. Hair sheds. Nails split. Brain fog makes it hard to finish a sentence. Many women experience postpartum hair loss after a Princeton Medical Center delivery that oral iron alone doesn't resolve.
Many local OBs at Penn Medicine and Princeton Medicine Associates flag low ferritin at the postpartum checkup but don't offer in-office infusions, and hospital infusion-suite referrals take weeks.
Oral iron takes three to six months to work — if you can tolerate the stomach cramps and constipation. A Princeton Medical Center infusion suite visit means half a day: scheduling delays, hospital parking off Plainsboro Road, waiting rooms. Hard to manage between Northeast Corridor commutes, campus teaching schedules, or a 6-week-old at home.