Welcome to Cozy Cottage Infant Educare, your new baby's home away from home!   

Cozy Cottage is an infant specialty childcare for infants aged 0-12 months.  We are located in the South Lake Minnetonka area, convenient to Minnetonka, Excelsior, Chanhassen, Hopkins, and Eden Prairie.

I'm Heidi, owner of Cozy Cottage.  I’m a mom of 4 (17, 19, 23 & 26), a 4-yr Registered Nurse (RN-BSN), professional nanny and infant lead-teacher qualified provider, with over 25 years of experience in private, in-home, and center-based infant care. I have spent time (at the U of M) in the NICU, I have worked as a school nurse in an early childhood setting (ages 6 wks-5 yrs), as a newborn night nurse (now often called an Infant Care Specialist), as a nanny in private homes, as an independent infant/toddler sleep consultant, and finally as a licensed home childcare provider from 1996-2007. 

Finding quality care for infants right now is a challenge at best, and often nearly impossible, as there are so few spots available for infants at each childcare home or center.  Many parents don't realize that centers are having a very hard time finding qualified teachers since Covid.  Some centers are choosing to close their infant rooms, or defer teacher training requirements until after hiring in an effort to keep rooms full and maximize profits.

At Cozy Cottage, I offer a partnered approach to childcare, not a revolving door of often inexperienced, underqualified, undereducated teacher's aides.  I firmly believe the important decisions regarding the care of your infant should be made between myself and you as the parents, not a corporate committee or government agency.  I consider open communication between myself and the families I work with essential to your baby's care.

Parents love it here at Cozy Cottage, and babies do too...I have many repeat families!  Cozy Cottage really is a unique childcare environment...let me show you why!