Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-9232373-20140409221525/@comment-4839682-20140409231642

Arctucrus wrote: Never gave him up, always had him. This. Regina explained in "Going Home" that undoing her Dark Curse would take everything of Storybrooke, including their memories. Of course, for Emma, that's less than a year's time (at that point) but that's Henry's whole life. She gave them a false history for all of that. The scene where Emma gave birth and chose to hold Henry is her choosing to keep him; it's the start of the false memories.