The Dixie Belle Diaries

Savannah James Mazzola: a Birth Story

Posted on January 15, 2018
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So, yeah. That didn't take long. I had been having contractions all night before we decided to get up and go to church as a family Sunday morning, January 14th. So when they continued throughout the service, I knew we were going to at least…

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37 Week Bumpdate with Miss Savannah James

Posted on January 15, 2018
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Y’all. Feel free to start making bets about little miss Savannah’s arrival. For those of you that follow me on Instagram, y’all may know that we discovered this stubborn little girl has in fact been breech this entire time. The head that every doc thought…

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An Update Before I Get Back to Being a Real Blogger

Posted on January 10, 2018
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Hey y'all! My apologies for the radio silence on social media these past couple weeks. Immediately after spending our Christmas in the hospital, Reese started to turn a major corner. Little man did a 360 in terms of recovering from the nasty side effects from…

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2017 Takeaways

Posted on December 28, 2017
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This year has been a hell of a year as you all know. But through everything that's happened, somehow, some way, we managed to make it through as a stronger family. And because I just love talking about myself, I'd like to share some of…

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LATE BUT STILL AWESOME – Mommy’s Christmas List: a Gift Guide for the Fancy Mommy

Posted on December 27, 2017
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So, I wrote this awhile back, but life has kind of gotten out of hand lately, so I never actually got around to posting it. Oops. Total blogger fail. This was supposed to be the Fancy Mommy Gift Guide, but let's just see how we did…