The 50-year-old has been sent for five scans over the past year but they have shown that nothing is growing in her womb.
Town councillor Linda is now convinced her ‘baby’ is an abdominal pregnancy, which is when the child grows outside the womb.
She said: “Nobody will take me seriously. I’ve had nine children and I know what it’s like to feel a baby inside me.”
She added: “I’ve had all the symptoms of pregnancy – sickness, backache and tiredness. I am absolutely certain that there is a baby there, but it is growing in the wrong place.
“I keep going to my GP and he’s agreed to a few times to send me for a pregnancy scan. But they only scan my womb – so how can they find my baby if it’s growing in my abdomen?”
While visiting her sister, Linda begged her sibling’s GP to listen to her tummy with a Doppler machine.
She told the Milton Keynes Citizen: ““I heard the baby’s heartbeat! I know that sound so well, how could I not recognise it!”