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🛑 At the end of April, I was sitting alone at our kitchen table in Berlin, surrounded by bills. After covering that month’s expenses, there was barely €90 left in my account—and several direct debits still hadn’t gone through. 🛑 My name is Liam Walker. I’m 36, originally from Hamburg, and I’ve lived in Berlin for more than ten years with my wife, Sophie. We’ve been together for seven years and married for almost five. Sophie works as a beauty consultant at Douglas near Alexanderplatz, while I drive a truck, delivering goods across Berlin, Brandenburg, and the surrounding areas. Until recently, our life had always been fairly ordinary. We rented a comfortable two-bedroom apartment in Charlottenburg for €1,180 a month. We usually bought groceries at REWE, occasionally went to EDEKA, and used Aldi whenever we needed to keep the weekly spending down. Once a year, we allowed ourselves a short break, usually somewhere along the Baltic Sea coast or in Saxon Switzerland. We weren’t wealthy, but we had enough to live comfortably. There was only one thing missing from our lives: a child. For almost four years, Sophie and I did everything we could to become parents. There were tests, consultations, treatments, procedures and more medications than I can remember. Eventually, a doctor at a private fertility clinic in Berlin sat us down and gave us an honest assessment. “Your chances of conceiving naturally are extremely low. I think you should seriously consider IVF.” Neither of us answered immediately. It was a major decision, both emotionally and financially, and we spent a long time discussing it. But eventually, we agreed that we had to try. Our first IVF cycle cost €4,900. It failed. The second attempt required another €4,100. By then, we had spent close to €9,000. We used what was left of our savings and covered the rest with a loan from Deutsche Bank. Sophie kept telling me the same thing: “If this gives us the chance to have a baby, it will be worth every
