Finn is 44 days old today.

On Saturday, September 3, Finn met his older brother Dermot for the first time. And the meeting actually went better than Mom and Dad expected! Dermot climbed onto Mom’s lap while she was holding Finn, pointed to his baby brother and said, “Baby!” and then later pointed at him and said “Finn!” He then proceeded to open and play with the race cars that Finn “bought” for Dermot.

Finn, having sized up his giant older brother, clearly decided that he was going to need to bulk up to survive in this family — and that night he tipped the scales at 3 pounds for the first time! This means it took Finn exactly 6 weeks to double his birth weight, and he’s started looking a bit chubbier to Mom and Dad. Mom even thinks she’s seeing signs of a double chin… or it could just be because of the chin strap they’re using to keep him mouth closed for the CPAP. In any event, when they weighed him last night, Sunday, September 4, he was 3 pounds, 1 ounce.

As for other developments, it turns out that we might have jinxed Finn ever so slightly with our last post. His oxygen requirements have increased just a bit over the past few days, and he’s generally sitting in the 30% to 33% range at this point — but he’s still on a CPAP pressure of 6, and his heart rate is still fairly steady in being a bit on the higher side, but not constantly tachycardic.

We do expect that he’s likely going to need another blood transfusion, and while this means that Finn isn’t quite where he needs to be from the standpoint of sustaining his own blood production internally, the upside is that a transfusion should hopefully moderate both his heart rate and his oxygen requirements.

Repeating the above, but Finn’s recent milestones include:

• On Saturday, September 2, he met his older brother Dermot for the first time.
• On Sunday, September 3, he weighed in at 3 pounds (1370 grams) — or double his birth weight.