I've said it before and I know others have too: it's awfully strange, considering my profession, that I don't read books. I've never been a book reader. Ever. I struggled through classes in high school and college that required reading novels.

I know, right? And yes I still want to write the Great American Novel. But that's different. Part of the reason I don't read more is that I'm easily distracted. I can sit down and read a chapter or two of a book, put it down and think that I'll be able to get back to it the next day. But then it's a week before I pick the book up again and I've forgotten what I've read.

Anyway, there have been few books that I haven't been able to put down. And coming from a person who doesn't read books, I think that says a lot. (This is one of those books; one of the most amazing things that ever happened to me is published in this book.)

All of this to say that I recently read a book I couldn't put down. OK, it was an advanced PDF copy of the book, so I was reading it online, but still. A very good friend of mine interviewed tons of women with all types of diabetes in all parts of the world about their experiences preparing for pregnancy, being pregnant and being a mommy with diabetes.

The book -- Balancing Pregnancy with Preexisting Diabetes: Healthy Mom, Healthy Baby -- will be published next month. The author, who has type 1 diabetes and is a mom, wrote the kind of book that those of us who have been diabetic and pregnant wished we could have had when we were in the trenches.

I was immersed in the book from the first page. There are no scare tactics, there is no judgement, there is no medical jargon that lay people can't understand. This is a straight-forward book that talks to real woman about what works or doesn't work for them. It's like a bible for diabetic pregnancies. 

One of the first things I thought of while reading this was: Finally! A resource that embraces and rewards the hard work it takes to be diabetic and pregnant.

If you or someone you know is pregnant, planning to become pregnant or just wants to read a myth-busting book about diabetes and pregnancy, I highly recommend this one.

(Oh, and you'll find quotes from me in the book, too, about my pregnancy with No. 3.)