Bringing your baby home to Midtown, Uptown, Bellevue Park or Camp Hill? You do not have to pack the car again. Rabbi Tzvi Fischer is a certified, seventh-generation mohel who comes to you — a calm, unhurried newborn circumcision in your own living room, with your baby back in your arms within minutes.
Gentle circumcision care across Harrisburg and the Susquehanna Valley
Most Harrisburg babies arrive at UPMC Harrisburg’s Women and Babies Center at Hollinger Tower on South Front Street, at Penn State Health Hampden Medical Center just across the river in Enola, or at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center a short drive east. Wherever your birth happens, the days that follow belong at home — and that is where we meet you. We travel to families in Midtown and Uptown, along Front Street and Italian Lake, in Shipoke, Bellevue Park, Allison Hill and Camp Curtin, and out through Susquehanna and Lower Paxton Townships.
We also cross both shores regularly: Camp Hill, Lemoyne, New Cumberland, Enola, Mechanicsburg and Carlisle to the west; Linglestown, Colonial Park, Middletown, Hummelstown, Hershey and Palmyra to the east. In-Home Circumcision is a national practice built around a single idea — that a newborn circumcision should happen in a quiet, familiar room, on your family’s schedule, with a mohel whose family has done this work for seven generations.
WHY FAMILIES CHOOSE IN-HOME
Calm, private, and close to home
Baby stays with you
No hospital nursery, no waiting room — your baby is comforted in your arms right afterward.
In your own home
We come to your Harrisburg-area home at a time that fits your family's rhythm.
Seventh-generation mohel
Rabbi Tzvi Fischer is a certified mohel from seven generations of mohalim.
LOCAL BIRTH SUPPORT IN HARRISBURG
Harrisburg-area doulas, midwives & birth centers
Trusted local birth professionals serving Harrisburg and the surrounding area. Search by name or filter by type. Note: there is no freestanding birth center in Harrisburg or Dauphin County — the birth centers listed below are hospital-based.
BIRTH CENTER
UPMC Harrisburg — Women and Babies Center at Hollinger Tower
111 S. Front St., downtown Harrisburg
The in-city hospital birth option, with labor and delivery on the eighth floor, an antepartum unit for higher-risk pregnancies, and recognition from U.S. News as High Performing for maternity care.
Penn State Health Hampden Medical Center — Women and Babies Center
Enola, West Shore
The West Shore's hospital birth center, staffed by obstetricians and certified nurse midwives around the clock, with private delivery suites and a Level II special care nursery.
Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
Hershey, about 15 miles east
Delivers more than 2,000 babies a year beside central Pennsylvania's only Level IV NICU, with midwives, obstetricians and maternal-fetal medicine on one care team.
A certified nurse midwife team that carries families through pregnancy and attends deliveries on the hospital labor and delivery unit, working alongside obstetricians if care needs to escalate.
Kristy Wilson, CPM, runs a deliberately small caseload home-birth practice with long prenatal visits, a water birth option, and craniosacral bodywork woven into pregnancy and postpartum care.
Harrisburg, Camp Hill, Enola, Mechanicsburg, Carlisle
Lynn Okuley, CPM, attends home births across Central PA with in-home prenatal visits, a water birth option, and six weeks of postpartum and newborn follow-up.
Harrisburg, Camp Hill, Mechanicsburg, Hershey, Carlisle
A Harrisburg agency founded in 2018 that pairs every client with two doulas at no extra cost, supporting hospital and home births plus postpartum, lactation and childbirth education.
Heather Loring-Albright is a certified labor and birth doula running a solo Harrisburg practice, bringing a background in wilderness expedition guiding to steady, hands-on birth support.
An independent pregnancy and parenting center running six-week childbirth series, baby care basics, breastfeeding classes and infant massage, taught by a certified birth doula.
State College practice reaching Harrisburg, Hershey & Camp Hill
A full-service agency offering birth and postpartum doulas, childbirth classes, lactation support and birth photography across a wide swath of central Pennsylvania.
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One professional fee of $980, plus travel
Our $980 professional fee covers the free consultation, the circumcision itself, the sterile equipment and supplies, and follow-up guidance on aftercare. Travel expenses to your Harrisburg-area home are added on top and quoted openly before you book — no surprises, no add-ons afterward.
Do you travel to Harrisburg and the surrounding area?
Yes. We come to families throughout Harrisburg — Midtown, Uptown, the Front Street and Italian Lake blocks, Shipoke, Bellevue Park, Allison Hill and Camp Curtin — as well as Susquehanna Township and Lower Paxton Township communities such as Linglestown and Colonial Park. Across the river we serve Camp Hill, Lemoyne, New Cumberland, Enola, Mechanicsburg and Carlisle, and to the east Middletown, Hummelstown, Hershey and Palmyra. If you are elsewhere in Dauphin, Cumberland, Perry or Lebanon County, ask — we usually can.
Can you perform a bris in Harrisburg?
Yes. Rabbi Fischer performs full brisim with the traditional blessings and a baby naming for Jewish families, and he also performs simple, private medical circumcisions with no religious ceremony for families of every background and none. You tell us which you would like at the consultation, and the visit is shaped around that.
How soon after birth can the circumcision be done?
Most families are seen in the first one to four weeks. A traditional bris takes place on the eighth day. The right timing depends on your baby’s weight, feeding and overall wellbeing after birth, and we confirm all of it together at the free consultation before anything is scheduled.
How do we book?
Start with a free consultation. Send us a note through the contact page with your due date or your baby’s birth date and where in the Harrisburg area you are, and we will walk you through how the visit works, what it costs including travel, and what dates are open — with no obligation to book.
Expecting in the Harrisburg area?
Reach out whenever you are ready — before the birth or after you are home. The consultation is free, unhurried, and there is no obligation to schedule anything.