I've caught more babies than I can count. Why am I empty?

You have stood in the hardest rooms people enter — birth, and sometimes loss. You did this again and again, for years. Now you notice the well is low. You wonder if that means you are no longer fit for the work. It does not mean that. It means you spent a finite thing as if it were infinite. No one warned you, or you did not listen. Either way, the ledger is simple: what goes out must come back in, or the account empties. You are not broken. You are overdrawn. If what you feel is more than tiredness — if it will not lift with rest, or it frightens you — talk to someone trained to help, not just this page. For the rest, the work starts now, with one choice, not a rescue.