Why IV Iron?
Built for Short Hills women
You delivered at Saint Barnabas Medical Center six months ago. Your ferritin came back at 16 at your six-week visit. Your OB said "try oral iron." You're still running Glenwood and Deerfield drop-offs on four hours of sleep, barely making it through the 7:42 Morris & Essex Midtown Direct into Penn, and your hair is coming out in the shower.
Most Short Hills 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 Saint Barnabas delivery that oral iron alone doesn't resolve.
Many local OBs in Millburn, Livingston, and West Orange 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 Saint Barnabas infusion suite visit means half a day: scheduling delays, hospital parking off Old Short Hills Road, waiting rooms. Hard to manage with a newborn or back-to-back Zoom calls from your home office.