Nesting is a shared parenting concept that allows the children to stay in the marital home while the parents go back and forth. The idea is that the children will be able to remain in one familiar place, have no concerns about where they are on what day or what they need to take with them. Typically, parents who choose this will be sharing time in the home with the children on an equal basis.
In this blog posting Clare Piro offers a number of issues to consider including long term or short term, cost, lack of privacy, significant other, working together, and reassessment.