Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-1839456-20140710052626/@comment-4839682-20140710120312

Cora raising the child herself wouldn't make a child not Rumplestiltskin's if he fathered it.

However, Cora later says to Rumple, "You changed the contract, Rumple. You only get your own child. And any baby I have… It won’t be yours."

Now, to me, and including Rumple's reaction to this, it's one of two things. Rumple and Cora haven't actually had sex yet, and thus no child of hers could biologically be his. Or, they have, but she knows she isn't pregnant and that her child thus won't be his. Either way, he knows she's right about.

Personally, I believe they hadn't had sex. It explains Cora's certainty in her words. And, given the events that preceded this with Zelena, I don't think Cora would risk getting pregnant before marriage again.

Now, of course, this is all very speculative either way. However, Prince Henry is her acknowledged father, and we have no real dir