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The Village Modern Families Have Been Waiting For
Parents aren’t struggling because they “can’t have it all.”
They’re struggling because they’re expected to do it all – the career, the caregiving, the identity shift – without the infrastructure or support that makes it sustainable.
Especially for mothers, every path feels like a compromise: stay home and risk falling behind, return full-time and feel judged and/or guilty, or work part-time and end up stretched thin from all sides.
NEST exists to change that.
We created the third option: a place where parents can work with focus, stay close to their babies and toddlers, and feel supported, not squeezed.
Delia: When “Flexibility” Isn’t Really Flexible
Melissa: Seeing Both Sides of the System
Our Story: Built From Lived Experience
Delia returned to work when her son was 8 months old.
She was incredibly lucky – she had the kind of employer who truly tried:
her baby was welcome on Zoom calls, she could breastfeed between meetings, and her manager supported her in ways many parents only dream of.
And yet… it was the most stressful chapter of her postpartum life.
Working from home with a baby wasn’t freedom, it was fragmentation.
Impossible hours, constant guilt, a brain split in two.
Within weeks, she questioned everything. Was she rushing back too soon? But if she didn’t return, would she fall behind?
Would she lose future opportunities? Her pension? Her independence?
Her son finally began daycare at 15 months, only 3-5 hours a day, because anything more felt like too much separation, too fast. And she knew so many parents felt the same.
As an educator and anthropologist, Melissa had spent years inside the German childcare system.
She saw how parents struggled to balance connection with their children and responsibilities at work.
When she became a mother herself, she felt that same incoming tension:
loving her work, loving her child, and feeling pressured to choose between them long before it felt right. Putting her little one into daycare too soon weighed heavy on her mind.
She’d watched countless families struggle –
not because they were “unorganized” or “bad at parenting,”
but because the system gives them no middle ground.
The Shared Realization
Both us founders saw the same truth from different angles:
Parents aren’t failing, the system is failing parents.
We didn’t want to lose ourselves to motherhood, and we didn’t want to lose motherhood to our careers.
We wanted both – and we wanted our children close during those precious, unrepeatable early years.
So we built what we couldn’t find.
Our Vision: Work and Family, Side by Side
We imagine a world where:
parents don’t have to choose between career and closeness
mothers aren’t penalized for caregiving
fathers are equally empowered to participate
families thrive with real community support
employers benefit from the full potential of working parents
and early childhood is honored, not rushed
NEST is more than a space. It’s a movement toward structural change, starting in Hamburg.
Our Mission: Creating the Infrastructure Families Deserve
To provide a place where parents can work with focus and purpose while their babies and toddlers are cared for with love, expertise, and the reassurance of being just a few steps away.
Where connection is preserved.
Where careers continue.
Where identity expands instead of shrinking.
Where parents feel held, not judged.
We’re here to build the village modern families have been missing.
Meet the Team
Delia Arnon–Gyger
Co-Founder & CEO/CMO
Brand strategist, creative director, and mother.
Delia combines 10+ years of marketing leadership with lived experience navigating the impossible expectations placed on new mothers. She leads vision, brand, and growth with one belief:
parents deserve better systems, not more pressure.
Melissa Marques
Co-Founder & CXO
Samantha Holmes
Community & Operations Manager
Social Anthropologist, state-recognized early childhood educator, and mother.
Melissa oversees pedagogy and childcare quality across NEST. She brings research, expertise, and heart into creating safe, nurturing environments where children flourish and parents feel at ease.
Community-builder, Montessori-educator, and the warm welcome behind every NEST experience.
Samantha ensures families feel supported from the moment they walk in, maintaining the village parents rely on and the day-to-day operations and logistics that make NEST feel like a second home.
Why Parents Trust Us
Because we’ve lived every page of this story.
We know the invisible labor, the emotional tug-of-war, the societal pressure,
and the longing to build a life that honors both ambition and motherhood.
NEST is built from that truth.
By mothers. For families.
With expertise, compassion, and a vision for something better.
We’re not just opening a space.
We’re creating a village – and we’d love you to be part of it!