2007?? What is the basis of this and is it still true?

Putting aside, for now, all the talk about years and which is what, there is one thing that the writers did give us and it was that Storybrooke, Emma and Henry all share the same birthday! The first was that we saw Emma being born on the day the Dark Curse reached her castle. Emma goes through the enchanted wardrobe and escapes the Curse. Would you agree that Storybrooke and Emma came into existence on the same day? If not, don’t bother reading on. If you do, then can we not say that Storybrooke and Emma share the same birthdate?
The writers tell us, as well as Henry and Emma for the next few episodes that Emma gave birth to Henry at age 18. The writers tell us that Henry is 10years old. The writers tell us in the Pilot that it is Emma’s 28th birthday several times. In order for these statements to remain true together there is only one possibility. Simply that Emma gave birth to Henry on her 18th birthday, right? Because one day later and Henry is still 9 on Emma’s 28th birthday…..and one day sooner, Emma is giving birth as a 17 year old. So, for both of those statements to remain true together, Emma had to have given birth to Henry on her 18th birthday…Also making true that If Emma and Storybrooke share the same birthday, then Henry does as well.
Now, I know we all accept truthful statements made by the writers, expressed through the characters, otherwise, we have no proof that Henry is even Emma’s son. I don’t remember an episode of Emma giving birth to Henry. So, I have to accept it as a truthful statement of the show.
I’m inclined to believe the newsprint article up to the last six words. But, it could have read anything after the word Swan. We don’t know what it read after that. And I don’t believe I’ve ever read that the night of a crime could ever be the conviction date as due process of law has to take place first! Conviction dates are usually far beyond the arrest date. If what some are basing the timeline on in Storybrooke is any earlier than 1983, than you’ll have a difficult time explaining all the 1983 vehicles in Storybrooke if time was frozen (another true statement by the writers) in 1979. (1996-17=1979). I’m sure the writers put that last sentence there, knowing we would assume and run with it….which is what we did.

What episode did Henry first say he was 10? Was it it Price of Gold or was his age mentioned before then? I ask because Henry may have had a birthday off screen between the Pilot and Price of Gold. He has no friends and Regina wouldn’t tell Emma about it so it would be rather low key. If he is definitely 10 before finding Emma then Emma was lying when she said she had him at 18.

“Just got out of the system” doesn’t necessariliy mean she met Henry’s father the moment she left the system. I think some parts of the story she told Henry about his father were true such as coming to the diner where she worked. I think a couple of months passed between her leaving the system and meeting Henry’s father. I would say less than a year for Emma to consider herself as “just got out” but a few months for Emma to start getting her life together with a job.

I wonder if Henry’s birthday will be acknowledged in the first four episodes of season 2. Episode 5 would be Halloween so storywise that would have covered an entire year between Henry finding Emma and present day so Henry’s birthday must occur somewhere between that time.

Of course Emma knows Henry’s birthday, she’s his mother. Emma told Ashley/Cinderells she was 18 when she had a kid. She could have been 17 and 11monhts and rounded up and said 18. That would make Henry born a month before her birthday and he woukd be 10 at the time he met Emma on her 28th birthday. She could’ve had him 3 days, a week, 3weeks after her 18th birthday. That would technically make Henry still 9 when he met Emma, but he would be turning 10, Regina could’ve rounded up and said “he’s 10″…I know they didn’t acknowledge a birthday for Henry….but then again, they didn’t acknowledge any holidays at all. It seemed to be Fall in Storybrooke and Emma was there for a few months, so in ‘reality’ there should have been some holidays, that would give Storybrooke a time frame, and there is no time frame in Storybrooke because of time being frozen.

didn’t Emma said she gave birth to henry in prison? if so she could not have given birth to him at 17… minors don’t go to prison (unless you know… murder)

Emma was in juvy though. They said it was a juvy record and was supposed to be sealed, so Regina illegally obtained them somehow.