Pregnancy – The Dixie Belle Diaries

Failure to Thrive

Posted on March 24, 2018
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Failure to thrive. That's what brought us to the hospital this time. With the amount of time our family has spent in these hospitals over the past couple years, I am seriously considering proposing a "frequent flyer" program to the board of directors. Kind of…

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When You Lose Your Grace

Posted on February 4, 2018
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Y'all. I did a thing. I did a bad thing. I let my emotions get the best of me (not advisable), and I retaliated. A comment that hurt my feelings-- and believe me, it takes a lot to hurt my feelings, so it was one…

Keeping Up with the Mazzolas

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…

Childhood Cancer

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…