So me and my wife are panicking a little bit. My son has not gained any weight in over a month. He plateaued at around 5 months and has been gaining weight very slowly. Each month it is within measurement error. He is now 8.5 month and weights 16lb and 4oz to 16lb and 8oz. He has been exclusively breastfed until six months. We are now introducing solids in the form of rice porridge, steamed carrots, wheat cereal and other foods like that. He readily eats everything, prefers homemade to store bought. But he does not eat enough. He eats what he wants and then refuses. A very distracted breast feeder. Prefers to play with nipple and milk is just coming out being wasted. Wife prefers to feed him before naps and at night when he is sleepy. He is happy, never cries, plays non stop, thin but has fat cheeks, chubby arms and etc.
My wife read some resources on baby related message boards. People say that plateau happens for breast fed babies when solids are introduced. Same was told to me by my co-workers when I asked around.
Our doctor wants to see us in two weeks to see if he gains weight. He gave my wife some advice on feeding. It amounted to pumping breast milk and measuring how much she gives. She is very much against it. She thinks that feeding from the breast is far better then bottle.
I am just looking for any advice from any one familiar with this.
For now we are going off solids again and will try to go all breast milk.