New business Alert! The Nest in Bowling Green

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – A new space seeks out to provide a sense of community to new parents.

In an interview with the owner, Kristen Siegle said she and her husband acted on a feeling and idea they had after becoming parents during the COVID pandemic and moving back into the Bowling Green area. The new service is meant to be a social lounge for parents and their young children to give families the support and fellowship the Siegles felt like they missed out on during their son’s first year of life.

The owner said she wants it to feel like a one-stop -shop for parents with things like open play hours and soon-to-come weekly programming and the resource wall.

Siegle said the resource wall will be a collection of QR codes to help parents connect with specialists in aspects of parenthood, and eventually parents can look forward to classroom sessions or organized events in 2024.

A first-time mother who just moved into town from North Carolina said it’s been a great help to her. With no friends in the area, it’s helped her and her son experience some needed socialization as a stay-at-home mom, she says.

She told the station she’s exchanged contact information with some other women who frequent the lounge, which is exactly what Siegle was hoping for.