Why IV Iron?
Built for Summit women
You delivered at Overlook Medical Center six months ago. Your ferritin came back at 17 at your six-week visit. Your OB said "try oral iron." You're still running Summit Public Schools drop-offs on four hours of sleep, your husband disappears every morning on the 7:42 Morris & Essex Midtown Direct, and your hair is coming out in the shower.
Most Summit 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 an Overlook delivery that oral iron alone doesn't resolve.
Many local OBs in Summit, New Providence, and Berkeley Heights 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. An Overlook infusion suite visit means half a day, even though the hospital is five minutes away: scheduling delays, hospital parking off Morris Avenue, waiting rooms. Hard to manage with a newborn, a toddler at Kent Place, or back-to-back Zoom calls from home.