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It was made pretty clear in the episode that the baby was not Neil/Bellfire. Rumple had a conversation with Isaac about how Neil had died in battle (in that universe at least). Has it ever been stated that he can't create new characters? He doesn't care about the rules anyway, so if it's just a prohibition he wouldn't have any problem with it. Maybe Belle was already secretly pregnant and the auther just wrote the child into the story?