La Petite Academy

This daycare is very disappointing in there conduct. Their not very sanitary and have a lack of staff. They have went through a new director and multiple employees within the few months that I’ve been here. It’s unfortunate that I had to pull my child from this daycare for multiple issues with this facility. I will not recommend this daycare to anyone that I know.

I have a 5 month old baby and she’s attended La Petite in Dumfries since she was 6 weeks old. My initial thought was the facility seemed to be good and the director said all the right things so I picked them over kindercare.
Over the past few months she’s been sick quite often. We’ve taken her to the doctors and settled on viruses of many kinds and this is expected. However, last night we had to take the baby to the urgent care center and she was diagnosed with the Rotavirus. Specifically, this is a «virus that spreads from person to person by the fecal-​oral route. Which means that hands contaminated with human waste touched your or another person’s food or mouth.» (Sentara)
Now, I have a touch of OCD and my family which includes myself, husband and son (11) all wash our hands when we enter the house from the day. Our home is clean we still make everyone disinfect their hands with antibacterial solution before picking the baby up because she is still so young and can catch germs very easily. Due to the winter months we haven’t been out much and she’s only been between daycare and home especially over the past 3 weeks.
In my opinion my child picked this disgusting virus up from the individuals working at this center. The director explained the policy to me noting all the workers wear gloves when changing infants. However, I have seen otherwise with my own eyes. The baby center reeks of boo-​boo and this cannot be a good sign when what they tell you the count is from worker to baby doesn’t always seem accurate when you pick your child up during various times of day and not when they expect parents.
I would never, ever, take my child back to this location. As of yesterday, we are done with this facility and daycare’s all together.