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 Reading, across Berks County, and throughout the country.
Whether you are bringing your baby home to a brick rowhouse in the Prince or Callowhill historic districts, a wide-porch twin on Centre Avenue, a hillside street in Hampden Heights or Glenside, or a place out in West Reading, Wyomissing or Exeter Township, the circumcision can happen exactly where you already are. Most Berks County families deliver at Reading Hospital’s Beginnings Maternity Center in West Reading or at the Breidegam Family Birthing Center at Penn State Health St. Joseph in Bern Township, and a good number choose the Reading Midwife Center on New Holland Road or a home birth with a county midwife. Wherever your baby is born, we come to you afterward.
In-Home Circumcision is a national practice with a simple promise: your baby stays home. Rabbi Tzvi Fischer is a certified, seventh-generation mohel — not a physician — and he travels to families in Reading and across Berks County, from Shillington, Kenhorst and Mohnton south of the city to Muhlenberg Township, Laureldale, Temple and Blandon in the north, and out to Sinking Spring, Wernersville, Birdsboro, Fleetwood, Kutztown, Boyertown and Hamburg. Everything happens in your own living room, at a time you pick, with your baby back in your arms within minutes.
No hospital nursery, no hand-off, no separation from the people who smell like home.
Your couch, your quiet, your people — and no drive across Reading with a newborn.
Rabbi Tzvi Fischer is a certified mohel, the seventh generation of his family to practice.
Trusted local birth professionals serving Reading and the surrounding area. Search by name or filter by type.
949 New Holland Rd, Reading
An accredited freestanding birth center carrying on the Reading Birth and Women's Center legacy since 1989, where certified nurse-midwives attend births either at the center or in your own home.
Visit website (opens in a new tab)Tower Health, West Reading
The main hospital birth option in the Reading area, with labor and delivery staffed around the clock, private maternity rooms, a Level III NICU and a place on Newsweek's America's Best Maternity Hospitals list for 2026.
Visit website (opens in a new tab)Penn State Health St. Joseph, Bern Township
Berks County's Baby-Friendly designated hospital, with fifteen private rooms where you labor, deliver and recover, air-jet whirlpool tubs in the room, and a six-bed Level II neonatal nursery steps away.
Visit website (opens in a new tab)Womelsdorf, western Berks County
A state-licensed and nationally accredited birth center on Host Road whose certified nurse-midwives serve western Berks and attend births at the center or in your home.
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A certified nurse-midwife practice a few blocks from Reading Hospital, whose midwives carry prenatal care all the way through to birth on the hospital's labor and delivery unit.
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A home-birth practice with a dedicated Berks County service area, offering full prenatal care, birth-tub rental and four postpartum visits after your baby arrives.
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A local agency in its second decade, with birth doulas, postpartum doulas and certified lactation counselors, plus childbirth and newborn-care classes taught in your own living room.
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A Birth Arts International certified doula and childbirth educator who teaches her classes at the Reading Midwife Center and stays with families through pregnancy, labor and the first weeks at home.
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A birth doula and licensed social worker who meets families at home to build a birth plan, stays through labor, and keeps a Berks County resource list for her clients.
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Birth and postpartum doula support paired with Hypnobabies childbirth classes and lactation help, offered across Berks County and into the Lehigh Valley.
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The professional fee is $980, plus travel expenses. That covers the free consultation beforehand, the circumcision itself in your home, sterile single-use equipment, the aftercare instructions we walk you through in person, and follow-up afterward. No hospital facility fee, and no separate charges appearing on a bill three weeks later.
Yes. We come to you anywhere in the city — Centre Park, the Prince, Callowhill, Penn’s Common, Queen Anne and the Heights historic districts, Hampden Heights, Glenside, Riverside and Millmont — and out across Berks County to West Reading, Wyomissing, Shillington, Kenhorst, Mohnton, Sinking Spring, Wernersville, Exeter Township, Birdsboro, Douglassville, Muhlenberg Township, Laureldale, Temple, Blandon, Fleetwood, Kutztown, Hamburg, Leesport, Boyertown, Womelsdorf and Robesonia. If you are not sure whether your address is within our usual range, ask 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 straight conversation about your baby, your timing and what the day would actually look like in your home in Reading.
