Both of my children have always woken at exactly 1.06am (give or take a few minutes either side depending on my clock calibrations), regardless of their regular sleeping patterns, or what time they went to sleep, etc.etc.
It's not as if I go to bed at 1am either and disturb them.
Theoretically, in the same way the National Grid powers up for an energy surge in usage around 6pm every day, so too could there be some surge in microwaves at this time every night (not the cooking sort, microwaves/radiowaves/any sort of frequency) . I've also noticed around 11pm at night the lights dim or flicker for a second before restoring.
So, does anyone else have experience of this phenomena around 1am each night?
It's a Phenomena simply because it's so consistent! There's has to be a scientific reason for it.
Alternative, it'#s self-fulfilling, in that around this time each night I start thinking, "any minute now, baby's going to wake up" and that thought's transmitted to him. Sounds daft, but I bet you have also experienced moments where your baby's in a deep sleep and the hoover doesn't wake hi, but you tiptoe into the room he's asleep in completely silent and he wakes, as if he's psychically tuned in to your presence!
I don't know enough about physics to expand, but perhaps someone on mumsnet does, but it could be likely couldn't it that as baby's skulls are still so undeveloped, they could be more susceptible to absorbing (how do you spell that!?) radiowaves . As you know, human skulls block out white noise constantly, otherwise we'd all be hearing 24-hour broadcasts, we are transceivers after all, we've got an electrical spark at the literal heart of our physical make-up!
This is posted on the Sleep Board too, but I figured there'll be more people awake on this one!