A newborn circumcision does not have to mean a hospital corridor, a strange room, or hours away from your baby. We come to you — to your own living room in Squirrel Hill, Mount Lebanon, Lawrenceville or anywhere across Greater Pittsburgh — so your son can be held, fed and comforted by you the whole time.
Pittsburgh families welcome their babies in a lot of different ways. Some deliver at UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital in Oakland, which handles more births than any other hospital in the region. Others choose AHN West Penn Hospital in Bloomfield, UPMC Mercy in Uptown, or the birth suites at The Midwife Center in the Strip District — southwestern Pennsylvania's only licensed, accredited freestanding birth center, and one of the oldest and busiest in the country. A growing number plan a home birth with a midwife in the South Hills or the North Hills. However your son arrives, the circumcision afterward can happen quietly at home.
We travel throughout Allegheny County and the surrounding region — Squirrel Hill, Shadyside, Point Breeze, Highland Park, Regent Square, Lawrenceville, Bloomfield, Oakland, the South Side and the North Side, along with Mount Lebanon, Upper St. Clair, Bethel Park, Fox Chapel, Sewickley, Wexford, Cranberry Township, Monroeville and the Robinson area. Rabbi Tzvi Fischer is a certified, seventh-generation mohel who performs both traditional brisim and simple, unhurried medical circumcisions for families of every background. He is not a physician; he is a specialist who does one procedure, does it often, and does it in your home.
No nursery, no waiting room — your son is in your arms before and after.
Your bed, your light, your quiet — no car seat, no parking garage.
A certified mohel carrying seven generations of hands-on experience.
Worth being straightforward about, because it affects how you should approach this. Pittsburgh is an out-of-state visit for us, several hours from the Detroit area, and we plan those trips rather than fitting them in around a day.
In practice that means three things. Reach out early — many Pittsburgh parents contact us before the birth, so the plan is in place when they come home. An eighth-day bris needs the most notice of all, because the date is fixed by the calendar and cannot move. And travel is a real line item in your quote rather than a nominal one; we give you the full figure upfront, before you commit to anything.
None of that stops us coming. Pennsylvania families are a settled part of this practice. It simply rewards a phone call in week one rather than week three.
Pittsburgh has more genuine out-of-hospital birth capacity than most American cities its size, and families who use it run into the same wall afterward: a hospital will generally not circumcise a baby it did not deliver, and a midwife does not perform circumcisions, because it falls outside midwifery scope of practice. Neither is refusing you anything. It is simply that the system assumes this happens before discharge, and yours did not have a discharge.
The directory below lists Pittsburgh-area birth professionals — The Midwife Center for Birth & Women's Health, UPMC Magee-Womens, AHN West Penn and UPMC Mercy, midwifery practices including Allegheny Nurse Midwives, New Mercies Midwifery, Apple Blossom Midwifery and Donna Roehm CPM, and doulas including the Pittsburgh Doula Network, Birth Doulas of Pittsburgh, Boundless Birth Doulas, Golden Lotus Doula Services, Blessed Arrivals and Pittsburgh Birth Services. It is published as a free resource whether or not you ever book with us.
Trusted local birth professionals serving Pittsburgh and the surrounding area. Search by name or filter by type.
Strip District — 2831 Penn Ave
Southwestern Pennsylvania's only licensed and accredited freestanding birth center, with three home-like birth suites, two of them equipped for water birth.
Visit website (opens in a new tab)Oakland — 300 Halket St
The region's dedicated women's hospital and the busiest place in western Pennsylvania to have a baby, with a Level III NICU and full high-risk obstetric care.
Visit website (opens in a new tab)Bloomfield
A long-established Pittsburgh birthing hospital repeatedly recognised for maternity quality, with a Level III NICU and certified nurse midwives on the birth team.
Visit website (opens in a new tab)Uptown / Bluff
A smaller, close-to-downtown labor and delivery option for families who want a hospital birth without the scale of a major regional center.
Visit website (opens in a new tab)Pittsburgh, Wexford & Gibsonia offices
A certified nurse midwife practice within Allegheny Health Network offering prenatal and gynecologic care, with births attended at West Penn Hospital.
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A certified professional midwife attending home births across the Pittsburgh area, with long prenatal visits, a 37-week home visit and postpartum care through six weeks.
Visit website (opens in a new tab)Monongahela — serving southwestern PA
Mary Claire Tidwell's home birth practice south of the city, offering prenatal, birth and postpartum care with a flat-fee package and payment plans.
Visit website (opens in a new tab)New Wilmington — serving the Pittsburgh area
CPMs Ellen Benek and Amanda Sheffler attend home births throughout western Pennsylvania, including water birth, delayed cord clamping and siblings present.
Visit website (opens in a new tab)Greater Pittsburgh
One of the city's largest doula collectives, matching families with birth doulas, postpartum doulas and IBCLC lactation consultants since 2000.
Visit website (opens in a new tab)Greater Pittsburgh
DONA-certified doulas supporting Pittsburgh families in hospitals, birth centers and at home since 1994.
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A team founded by Emily Christian-Michaels and Anna Sylvester offering birth, postpartum and sibling doula support.
Visit website (opens in a new tab)North Hills — 977 Perry Hwy
Birth and postpartum doulas who also run childbirth education classes, lactation support and birth photography from their Perry Highway office.
Visit website (opens in a new tab)Greater Pittsburgh & neighboring communities
A birth and postpartum doula team focused on natural childbirth support for families across the Pittsburgh region.
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Inclusive birth and postpartum doula support for families delivering in area hospitals, at The Midwife Center, or at home.
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Listed as a courtesy to local families; these are independent providers, not affiliates. Looking further afield? The full birth-support directory covers every city we serve. Know someone who should be here, or a listing that needs fixing? Get in touch.
Vitamin K. Babies born in hospital are routinely offered a vitamin K injection, which supports clotting in the first weeks. Families birthing at home or at a birth center sometimes decline it or use an oral protocol. It bears directly on any procedure involving bleeding, so expect us to ask and to talk it through honestly.
A newborn examination. Your son should have had one first. Findings such as hypospadias are a reason not to circumcise, because the foreskin may be needed for a later repair.
Our professional fee is $980, plus travel expenses to your home. That covers the free consultation beforehand, the circumcision itself in your home, and follow-up guidance on aftercare. No hospital facility charge, no surprise line items later.
Yes. We come to your home anywhere in Greater Pittsburgh and Allegheny County — Squirrel Hill, Shadyside, Point Breeze, Highland Park, Regent Square, Lawrenceville, Bloomfield, Oakland, the Strip District, the South Side and the North Side — as well as Mount Lebanon, Upper St. Clair, Bethel Park, Fox Chapel, Sewickley, Wexford, Cranberry Township, Monroeville and the Robinson area. If you are a little further out in Butler, Washington or Westmoreland County, ask us — we usually can.
It depends where in the region you are, and we quote it upfront before you commit to anything. Pittsburgh is an out-of-state trip from the Detroit area, so travel is a genuine line item here rather than a token one. You will have the complete figure — fee plus travel — before you decide.
Yes, and it is one of the most common reasons Pittsburgh families call us. A birth-center or home birth changes nothing about the procedure. It only means a hospital will not perform it, since your son was never their patient. We come to you once he is healthy and feeding well.
Yes. Rabbi Fischer is a certified, seventh-generation mohel and performs a traditional bris with the blessings and a baby naming for Jewish families in Pittsburgh. He also performs a simple, unhurried medical circumcision with no religious content at all, for families of every background and faith. Because the eighth day cannot move and Pittsburgh is a planned trip for us, call as early as you can. More on a bris in Pittsburgh.
Most in-home circumcisions happen in the first one to four weeks. A traditional bris is on the eighth day. Beyond that, the right timing depends on your baby's weight, feeding and jaundice status, and whether he was born early — all of which we go over together at the free consultation before anything is scheduled.
Request a free consultation. We will talk through your due date or your baby's birth date, answer your questions with no pressure, and only then pick a time that works for your family. Many Pittsburgh parents reach out before the birth so the plan is already in place when they come home.
Let's talk before your son arrives. The consultation is free, there is no obligation, and you will leave it knowing exactly what an in-home circumcision looks like.
We travel throughout the region. If you're closer to one of these, the same calm, in-home care applies there too.
