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It strikes me as a case of a lot of scholars pondering the nature of God requiring perfection in human form and just how that might be possible, extending that to Mary, and over centuries of layer upon layer of elaboration, creating doctrine of this speculation despite there being no presence of such claims in scripture.

The problem with this perfecting of Mary, the ever-virgin, the sinless, the bodily assumed, outside of the lack of scriptural validation, is that a perfect, sinless Mary would have had the same, physical issues as far as the inherited sin nature, as Jesus would have had, if all the learned and elaborate speculations and intellectualizations regarding His birth were actually the case.

Accepting that He was born of a virgin and that virgin was Mary, who was regarded as special and unique among women and therefore capable of bearing the Christ Child is as far as I'll go.