Your baby has just arrived, and the last thing you want is another car seat, another waiting room and another stranger. We come to you. The circumcision happens in your own home, in your own quiet, with your baby back in your arms within minutes — performed by a certified, seventh-generation mohel.
Whether you are bringing your baby home to a Victorian in the Hill Section, a double block on the West Side, a quiet street in Green Ridge or a new build up in Clarks Summit, the visit works the same way: we come to you. Most families here deliver at Moses Taylor Hospital on Quincy Avenue — home to the area’s only Level III NICU — or at the Childbirth Center at Geisinger Community Medical Center on Mulberry Street, and we schedule around what your discharge and your feeding routine actually look like, rather than the other way around.
We travel across the city — Downtown, North Scranton, Minooka, Tripp Park, Keyser Valley, Hyde Park, Bellevue, the Flats and East Mountain — and out through the valley to Dunmore, Dickson City, Throop, Olyphant, Blakely, Peckville, Archbald, Jessup, Taylor, Moosic, Old Forge, Moscow, Dalton, Clarks Summit and Carbondale. Rabbi Tzvi Fischer is a certified, seventh-generation mohel who travels nationally for scheduled visits, which is why the consultation comes first and the date is agreed with you before anything is booked.
No hospital nursery, no hand-off, no separation from the people who smell like home.
Your couch, your lighting, your own quiet — and no drive back across the valley afterwards.
Rabbi Tzvi Fischer is a certified mohel, the seventh generation of his family to do this work.
Trusted local birth professionals serving Scranton and the surrounding area. There is no freestanding birth center in Lackawanna County, so the centers listed below are hospital birth units. Search by name or filter by type.
700 Quincy Ave, Scranton
Scranton’s long-established maternity hospital, with recently renovated family birthing suites, a hydrotherapy room and a shower in every labor room, plus the area’s only Level III NICU with an in-house neonatologist around the clock.
Visit website (opens in a new tab)1800 Mulberry St, Scranton
The city’s other hospital birth option, where labor, delivery and recovery happen in one suite, staffed by both OB/GYNs and certified nurse-midwives, with birthing balls, benches and hydrotherapy tubs available through labor.
Visit website (opens in a new tab)Plains Township, near Wilkes-Barre
The regional hospital about twenty miles down the valley, whose Tambur Family NICU — a Level III unit with twelve private family rooms right beside labor and delivery — is the referral partner for higher-risk births from the Scranton area.
Visit website (opens in a new tab)Honesdale, Wayne County
A small community birth unit east of the city with five spacious labor-delivery-recovery-postpartum rooms, each with a private bathroom, large shower and a sleeper chair, and OB/GYNs, nurse-midwives and maternity nurses on hand 24 hours a day.
Visit website (opens in a new tab)3 W. Olive St, Scranton
The certified nurse-midwives here run the first hospital-system midwifery program in Scranton, caring for low-risk pregnancies alongside OB/GYNs and maternal-fetal specialists and attending births at the Childbirth Center.
Visit website (opens in a new tab)Bethany — Lackawanna & Wayne Counties
Jan Wolfenberg, CPM, LM, offers home birth and water birth with full prenatal care, nutritional counseling, postpartum visits and lactation support to families across Lackawanna County, Wayne County and the Scranton area.
Visit website (opens in a new tab)Bear Creek — serves Lackawanna County
Kimberly Rodriguez, CPM, works from Bear Creek and counts Lackawanna among the counties she serves, specializing in home birth, water birth, prenatal and postpartum care, newborn care and breastfeeding support.
Visit website (opens in a new tab)Scranton — Lackawanna County
A Scranton-based birth and postpartum doula whose practice covers Lackawanna, Wyoming, Susquehanna, Wayne, Pike, Monroe, Carbon, Luzerne and Schuylkill counties, built around unhurried, individual support rather than a fixed script.
Visit website (opens in a new tab)Scranton and surrounding areas
Brittany is a certified birth doula in the Scranton area supporting families from pregnancy through birth, breastfeeding and the fourth trimester, and she also teaches HypnoBirthing classes and runs a monthly NEPA mothers’ group.
Visit website (opens in a new tab)Wyoming Valley — serves Scranton
Chaya Munitz is a DONA-certified birth doula who attends births at Moses Taylor and Geisinger Community Medical Center as well as at home, covering Scranton, Dunmore, Old Forge, Moosic, Taylor and Carbondale, and accepting Pennsylvania Medical Assistance.
Visit website (opens in a new tab)Plains — serves Scranton & NEPA
Jessica Ann is a DONA-certified birth doula, licensed massage therapist and placenta encapsulation specialist whose studio on North River Street serves Scranton and Wilkes-Barre families with birth support, HypnoBirthing classes and prenatal massage.
Visit website (opens in a new tab)Scranton — within an hour of the city
Tammy Swetter is a licensed practical nurse and certified postpartum doula offering daytime and overnight postpartum care and gentle pediatric sleep coaching to families in Scranton, Dunmore, Clarks Summit, Dickson City, Carbondale and out to Honesdale and Tunkhannock.
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The professional fee is $980, plus travel expenses. That covers the free consultation beforehand, the circumcision itself, all supplies, written aftercare instructions and the follow-up conversation afterwards. There is no separate charge for a bris with blessings or a baby naming. You will know the full number before you agree to anything.
Yes. We come to you anywhere in the city — Downtown, Green Ridge, the Hill Section, North Scranton, Minooka, Tripp Park, Keyser Valley, Hyde Park, Bellevue, the Flats, the Nativity section and East Mountain — and out across Lackawanna County to Dunmore, Dickson City, Throop, Olyphant, Blakely, Peckville, Archbald, Jessup, Taylor, Moosic, Old Forge, Moscow, Dalton, Waverly, Clarks Summit and Carbondale. We also reach neighboring communities in Luzerne, Wyoming, Wayne and Susquehanna counties. 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 a simple medical circumcision with no religious ceremony at all. 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 and no obligation — just a straightforward conversation about your baby, your timing, and exactly what the visit would look like in your home.
