Why IV Iron?
Built for Tenafly women
You delivered at Englewood Health or Holy Name Medical Center in Teaneck six months ago. Your ferritin came back at 18 at your six-week visit. Your OB said "try oral iron." You’re still running Tenafly Public Schools drop-offs, your partner is stuck in GW Bridge backup every morning, and your hair is coming out in the shower.
Most Tenafly 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 Englewood Health or Holy Name Medical Center delivery that oral iron alone doesn't resolve.
Many local OBs in Tenafly, Englewood, and Cresskill 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 Englewood Health infusion suite visit means half a day: a drive down Route 9W each way, scheduling delays, hospital parking, waiting rooms. Hard to manage with a newborn at home or after a GW Bridge commute.