P.N.
OMG-PLEASE understand that a breastfed baby's digestive system is so completely different than a formula baby. That is first and foremost. There is plenty of clinical evidence that a breastfed baby will often go a week without a BM, and this is COMPLETELY normal. All my kids did it. In fact, it was wonderful when they got to that point (all around ther 3-4 month mark), b/c it meant less diapers! All my Exclusively breast babies were CHUBBY little ones! So, I never did experience one that wasn't gaining on my milk. When a baby is exclusively breastfed, there is often times where the milk is so perfectly proportioned for that baby's body, that there simply is no waste products to come out as a BM. On formula, there is so much of that that a baby isn't made to digest (after all, it is milk made from cow's milk, made for baby cows, not baby humans) that a BM is how they get rid of undigestable and/or unprocessable parts. Same as adults and kids on a regular diet.
Now as far as not gaining, my hunch would be that this is a caloric intake problem for mom. At pregnant and breastfeeding, she should be counting calories to be sure she is getting AT LEAST 2800 each day, to support both the fetus and the baby. Make sure she knows that.