Your baby has just arrived, and the last thing you want is another car seat, another waiting room, another stranger. We come to you. Rabbi Tzvi Fischer is a certified, seventh-generation mohel who performs gentle newborn circumcisions in your own home — in Lancaster, across Lancaster County, and throughout the country.
Whether you are bringing your baby home to a brick rowhouse near Musser Park, a porch-front street in Chestnut Hill or Cabbage Hill, a family home on the East Side or in Mussertown, or a quieter block in College Park, SoWe or Old Town, we come to you. We also travel out to the townships and boroughs that ring the city — Manheim Township and Lititz to the north, East Hempfield, Landisville and Columbia to the west, Millersville, Willow Street and Strasburg to the south, and Leola, New Holland and Ephrata out toward the eastern farmland.
Most Lancaster families deliver at Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health’s Women & Babies Hospital on Good Drive, at Penn State Health Lancaster Medical Center on State Road, at UPMC Lititz, or at WellSpan Ephrata Community Hospital — and some at the freestanding Birth Care birth center in the southern end of the county, or at home with a local midwife. Wherever your baby is born, the circumcision does not have to happen there. We schedule around your discharge and your recovery, arrive at your house with everything needed, and keep the whole visit calm and unhurried. Lancaster is one of many communities we serve nationally, and the care is the same in every one of them.
No hospital nursery, no hand-off, no separation from the people who smell like home.
Your couch, your lighting, your schedule — and no newborn car trip a few days after birth.
Rabbi Tzvi Fischer is a certified mohel from seven generations of mohalim, with thousands of circumcisions behind him.
Trusted local birth professionals serving Lancaster and the surrounding area. Search by name or filter by type. Lancaster County has one freestanding birth center; the other listings below are hospital birth units.
Bart · southern Lancaster County
Pennsylvania's first birth center, opened in 1978 and accredited by the Commission for the Accreditation of Birth Centers, with three nurse-midwife-staffed birth rooms and water birth on a quiet Georgetown Road campus.
Visit website (opens in a new tab)690 Good Drive, Lancaster · Penn Medicine LG Health
A 95-bed hospital given over entirely to maternity and women's health, where more Lancaster County babies are born each year than at any other hospital in the county.
Visit website (opens in a new tab)2160 State Road, Lancaster
A Family Birthing Suite with private labor-delivery-recovery-postpartum rooms, birthing tubs in four of them, obstetricians and certified nurse-midwives on the team, and a Keystone 10 breastfeeding designation.
Visit website (opens in a new tab)1500 Highlands Dr., Lititz
A Baby-Friendly designated maternity unit in northern Lancaster County with single-room maternity care, nitrous oxide as a labor pain-relief option, and an on-site NICU.
Visit website (opens in a new tab)Ephrata · northern Lancaster County
Six labor-and-delivery-recovery rooms with in-room showers and a whirlpool tub nearby, a 24-hour postpartum nurse line, and an optional maternity nurse home visit after you are discharged.
Visit website (opens in a new tab)Terre Hill & New Holland offices
Marielle Tomlin, CNM, and her team attend home and water births across Lancaster County and follow families afterward with in-home postpartum nursing visits.
Visit website (opens in a new tab)Strasburg · southern Lancaster County
A small home-birth practice with more than 25 years of combined midwifery experience, an office in Strasburg, and working relationships with local hospitals and maternal-fetal specialists.
Visit website (opens in a new tab)Denver · northeastern Lancaster County
A certified professional midwife running a deliberately small, unhurried home-birth practice serving Ephrata, New Holland, Lititz, Lancaster, Intercourse and Gap.
Visit website (opens in a new tab)Columbia · western Lancaster County
Jennifer Frye, CPM, has attended roughly 500 births and runs her home-birth practice from Locust Street in Columbia, serving Lancaster, York and Adams counties.
Visit website (opens in a new tab)Lancaster
A Lancaster collective that pairs three birth doulas with a postpartum doula, a placenta encapsulator, a massage therapist and a birth photographer.
Visit website (opens in a new tab)Royal Road, Lancaster
Birth and postpartum doulas supporting families from pre-conception through the first year, with breastfeeding support and placenta encapsulation alongside labor care.
Visit website (opens in a new tab)Lancaster County
Jill Healy is a certified birth doula offering labor support and postpartum care across Lancaster County, beginning with a free initial consultation.
Visit website (opens in a new tab)Lancaster
Heather Gascon pairs birth doula support with Bradley Method childbirth education, taught locally in Lancaster and in a digital format.
Visit website (opens in a new tab)No matches. Try a different search, or get in touch and we'll help you find someone.
Listed as a courtesy to local families; these are independent providers, not affiliates. Know someone who should be here, or a listing that needs fixing? Get in touch.
The professional fee is $980, plus travel expenses to your home. That covers the free consultation, the visit itself, the sterile single-use equipment, the aftercare instructions, and follow-up by phone whenever you need it. No hospital facility charge, no separate anesthesia line item, no surprise bill three weeks later.
Yes. We come to you anywhere in Lancaster city — Chestnut Hill, Musser Park, Cabbage Hill, the East Side, Mussertown, Old Town, College Park and SoWe — and out through Lancaster County to Manheim Township, Lititz, Millersville, East Petersburg, Landisville, Willow Street, Strasburg, Columbia, Mount Joy, Elizabethtown, Leola, New Holland, Ephrata, Denver and Quarryville. If you are not sure whether your address is within our usual range, ask us on the consultation call and we will tell you plainly.
Yes. Rabbi Fischer performs a full brit milah with the traditional blessings and a baby naming, in your home, with whoever you want present. He also performs simple medical circumcision without any religious ceremony. Families of every background — Jewish, Christian, Muslim, secular — are equally welcome, and no one is asked to include anything they do not want.
Most in-home circumcisions happen in the first one to four weeks after birth. A traditional bris takes place on the eighth day. The right timing for your baby depends on gestational age, birth weight, feeding and jaundice, and it is confirmed during the free consultation before anything is scheduled. If your baby needs more time, we wait.
Request a free consultation. We will talk through your baby’s birth and health, answer whatever you want to ask, agree on a date and a time that fits your household, and confirm everything in writing. There is no obligation and no charge for that conversation.
Start with a free consultation. No pressure, no commitment — just a calm conversation about your baby, your timing, and what the visit actually looks like in your own home.
