Hope told Shawn and Bo that she was pregnant. Bo feared that Stefano might have fathered Hope's child. Lexie, Stefano's daughter, saved his life. The Bradys and friends celebrated Hope's return. Bo began to tell Hope about her life as Princess Gina and eventually told her, he was not her Baby’s father. They had a DNA which proved neither was Stefano. John became obsessed with finding out if her baby was his and got his own DNA test to confirm it. He told Hope he was her baby’s father, explained what had happened on the Stub. She begged him never to tell Bo.
Lexie told Stefano she wanted to adopt a baby. Stefano wanted her to raise Hope and John’s baby and told Rolf to find a pregnant woman whose due date was around the same time as Hope. Rolf convinced his niece, Marlo, to sell her unborn baby to Stefano. Despite Lexie’s husband, Abe’s objects, they agreed to adopt Marlo’s baby. Hope went into labor and got married to Bo moments before her son, John Thomas was born. Rolf induced Marlo’s labor and she also gave birth to a son, Isaac Theo. Rolf snuck into the hospital and switched their id bracelets. After Bo told Hope about Gina's wedding, Hope told Bo she knew he was not J.T.'s father.
Lexie discovered that Marlo had been killed in the DiMera mansion and reluctantly agreed to keep it a secret, out of fear of losing her son. When the body turned up in a frozen lake weeks later, she started to panic and tried to force her husband, Abe to drop the investigation. He didn’t and released a police drawing what they though the woman would look like on the news. Glen Reiber, Marlo’s ex boyfriend, recognized her and came to Salem, looking for his son. Lexi turned to Stefano for help, who promised to that care of it. Hope and Abe started question Lexie on her behavior, Abe remarked she was acting more and more like a DIMera.
Lexie discovered that the babies were switched and turned to Stefano for help. He tried to convince her to leave Salem with him and the baby but the police showed up to arrest him. He managed to escape and left Salem. Lexie became extremely paranoid, fearing she would lose her son, without Rolf’s help. She forced Abe and Isaac to move into the DiMera mansion and used every DiMera trick to prevent Hope from discovering the thruth. When Hope suggested that there might have been a baby switch at the hospital. Rolf encouraged Lexie to turn Hope back into Princess Gin to prevent her from investigating her theory. Lexie refused at first, but agreed, when it became clear Hope would not stop. Lexie organized a "mother of the year" party for Hope, to get her at the Mansion.
All of Salem arrived at the mansion, decked out in their finest attire. As Rolf worked on the machine to activate the chip in Hope’s brain, Hope started remembering her past as Gina. She realized what was happening and begged John to help her as she struggled to maintain her identity. John cut into the base oif her skull just as Rolf increased the voltage on the memory surge device to permanently obliterate Hope's memories, bringing Gina back for good, John was successful but Gina emerged, kissed John, and then turned back into Hope as Bo walked in. He attacked John, as Hope tried to explain what had happened. Bo was furious when he learnt who J.T’s father was and that Hope kept it a secret but eventually forgave her, after remembering that Stefano had been controlling John and Hope when J.T. was conceived.