Confident Parenting Starts with Calm, Expert-Led Education

Nurtured Nest offers flexible, expert-backed courses designed to help you feel informed and confident during pregnancy, postpartum, and beyond.

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Our Mission

To make better humans by empowering parents with the knowledge to make the best choices for their children, from pregnancy and beyond.

🧠 Evidence-Informed, Always ➤
We blend scientific research with real-world parenting know-how—giving you trustworthy, practical insights so you can make decisions that actually work for your family.
📚 More Than Childbirth ➤
From pregnancy through early childhood, our courses cover what really matters: safety, feeding, sleep, development, and connection. Because parenting doesn’t stop at birth—and neither should your education.
🎓 We Teach, You Lead ➤
We don’t just hand out answers—we teach you the why behind your child’s needs and behavior. Our goal is to empower you to lead with confidence, not just follow instructions.
💬 Educators Who’ve Been There ➤
Our experts are also parents. That means they don’t just understand the science—they understand the struggle. Their personal experience brings empathy to every strategy they share.

Why Nurtured Nest?

Founded in 2019 by Kathryn Dunn, Nurtured Nest grew from one parent’s belief that there had to be a better way to educate families. Today, we provide modern, self-paced online courses that support every kind of caregiver—from pregnancy to baby’s first year and beyond.

Our team of experts includes healthcare professionals, parenting educators, and real parents. We’ve carefully built our classes to meet the needs of today’s busy families and growing babies.

We want our learners to feel empowered. To feel like, even in the chaos, they’ve got this. And we’ve got them.

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Meet our founder

Kathryn Dunn is a parent and educator who worked in curriculum development and business development before founding Nurtured Nest. After becoming a mom, she saw how confusing, inconsistent, and overwhelming parenting education could be. She created Nurtured Nest to bridge the gap between clinical expertise and real-world parenting.

She lives in North Carolina with her husband, two kids, and a growing herd of animals.

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“When I became a parent, despite my background in education and curriculum development, I found myself struggling to find clear, trustworthy guidance without drowning in the sea of information online. I thought—If I can't effectively source evidence-based information, what are other parents doing?

As an expectant mom, my instinct was to gather all of the physical 'things' that I thought would help my baby. In hindsight, instead of focusing on gadgets, I should have focused on learning about my baby—her body, her temperament, her needs, her cues. If I had known more about her, I would have known how to help her without feeling I was failing if I didn't buy the newest gadget.”

— Kathryn Dunn, Parent Educator & Founder of Nurtured Nest

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