Seeing his own body moving its head from side to side on the bed, he remembers his wife doing the same after the birth of their child, before she was fully conscious.
Date (happened)
c. June 1942
estimated · probable · preferred
Why
M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 002)
Reasoning
Passage 529101: 'after the birth of our child when she was not yet fully conscious'. Neville and Catherine's only child, Victoria, was born June 1942 (passage 541869, lecture 1526; chronology 819), and the recovery follows the birth at once.
before 1959
bound · possible
Reasoning
Qualifying passage ids [529101] belong to telling lecture nids [1058]. Each listed lecture contributes the selected safe envelope year 1959 (MAX of its non-refuted delivery years); 1959 is the MIN across telling lectures.
after June 1942
bound · probable
Why
Replaces the generic phase4 L6a before-1959 envelope with an anchor tied to the actual recalled happening (his daughter's June 1942 birth) rather than just the telling lecture's year.
Reasoning
This event is Neville recalling his wife's recovery movements in the period immediately following the birth of their child, not the birth itself. Neville states elsewhere, in his own words in a separately-dated certain lecture, that their daughter Vicki was born in June 1942 (corroborated by hist_event:821). The recalled recovery happened shortly after that birth, so the happening date is bound at after 1942-06; day-level precision for the birth itself is not given, and the 'shortly after' relationship is an inference, so probable rather than the birth's own certain confidence.
before 8 September 1959
bound
Why
Tightens the phase4 L6a envelope from before 1959 to before 1959-09-08.
Reasoning
L6a envelope tightened to the telling day of nid 1058 (certain delivery 1959-09-08); same premise, finer precision. The phase4 L6a bound on this event is `before 1959`, an envelope over delivery YEARS computed without reading text. Its premise is that the fact is true by the time it is told; on that same premise the DAY of the telling is a strictly better upper bound. Nothing is re-decided — the bound is stated to the precision the evidence always supported. The delivery claim for 1959-09-08 on nid 1058 is held at `certain` by the corpus, which is what carries this claim. #2274; the L6a row stands beside this one.
Sources
Source
- The Birth of the Babe ¶5 (I remember my wife doing this after the birth of our child when she was not yet fully conscious . . that sideways movement of the head, over and over.)