Why IV Iron?
Built for Ridgewood women
You delivered at Valley Hospital six months ago. Your ferritin came back at 18 at your six-week visit. Your OB said "try oral iron." You're still doing Ridgewood Public Schools drop-offs on four hours of sleep, your partner is on the Pascack Valley line every morning to Hoboken and then PATH into the city, and your hair is coming out in the shower.
Most Ridgewood women we see are postpartum or dealing with years of heavy cycles. 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 Valley Hospital delivery that oral iron alone doesn't resolve.
Many local OBs in Ridgewood, Ho-Ho-Kus, and Glen Rock flag low ferritin at the postpartum checkup but don't offer in-office infusions.
Oral iron takes three to six months to work if you can tolerate the stomach cramps and constipation. A Valley Hospital infusion suite visit means half a day, even though the hospital is in town: scheduling delays, parking off North Van Dien Avenue, waiting rooms. Hard to manage with a newborn or after a long Pascack Valley commute home.