NASHUA, N.H. (AP) – A Nashua couple says a neighbor who offered them her child once it was born may not have been pregnant when she made the promise of adoption.

Jonathan and Nancy Thivierge said neighbor Cindy Layton offered her baby, allegedly due last Christmas, and they prepared a nursery in their home and gave her groceries, medicine and clothes.

“For what she’s done, I can never forgive her or her husband for leading us to believe she was going to give us this child,” Jonathan Thivierge said.

Nancy Thivierge said she became suspicious when the doctor Layton supposedly had been visiting reported she was not a patient.

“They sat me down and basically told me, We have a problem here,”‘ Nancy Thivierge told WMUR-TV in an interview aired Monday.

“She’s upset with me, but I’m upset, too, because she doesn’t want to stay friends with me or nothing,” Layton told the television station and said she was six weeks pregnant. “She just thinks I am the most horrible person there is on the face of the planet.”

The Thivierges said they have a nursery ready for when they can get a baby. “And I know this room is going to remain empty until a miracle happens – if it happens,” Nancy Thivierge said.

The Thivierges said if Layton wants to keep her baby, they won’t fight her. But they said they are getting a lawyer to see if any laws have been broken in the deal.