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I'm thinking that Henry was talking from his POV as a child. Emma loved him but I don't think a newborn understand what love is. Regardless of the bad situation, I don't think it's unreasonable for a child to think their parent loves them. We saw with Drizella in the flashback that Tremaine really abuses her nonstop, but she still thought her mother loved her. Good or bad, a child is probably going to think their parent loves them (at first).

Henry isn't downplaying Emma, just he's talking from his experience. It's not like we talk about how much care someone showed us as a 1 year old given that we probably don't recall anything from that time.