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Advice on Silent Reflux/Colic/Gassy baby?!?

I have a 13 week old baby. He has had problems from day one with being fussy. I started breastfeeding and stopped after 1 month. He was up every 2 hours eating and crying. I tried taking dairy out of my diet even kept a journal of everything I had ate each day. I was exhausted so I decided to try to switch him to soy formula. He did better on that but became constipated and had very hard stools (he was still fussy but not as bad as when breastfeeding). His doctor suggested switching him to a formula for fussy babies (Similac Isomil Advance SOY). He was horrible on it and would cry for an hr each night and would fart and fart and fart until finally would cry himself to sleep. His doctor then told us to try Nutrimagen. It has worked wonders for him. He doesn't have gas anymore and poops regularly. Before with the gas being so bad I thought that it was the only reason for his fussiness. When he eats I will stop to burp him after 2 ounces and once he gets a burp out he becomes fussy and refuses to eat. He acts hungry but won't take his bottle and will only take his binkie. He also arches his back and makes talking sounds like he has more burps. If I don't stop to burp him after 2 ounces he will eat 4 then start the arching episode. I will then get anywhere from 5 to 10 burps out of him. He occassionally has a small spit up that is very thick and mucusy. At night he will fall asleep at 7 after bath, massage, feeding and rocking (or bouncing depending on him being fussy or not). He wakes up at 12 gets another feeding of 4 ounces and falls back asleep (he falls back asleep calmly during the night and doesn't really act like he needs to be burped), then between 12 and 5 he makes constant noises and never stops moving like he has a burp or something is bothering him. He wakes up at 5 and is up the rest of the day. I saw something about silent reflux and I don't know if that's what he has or not. He doesn't really spit up like I said so I always ruled out reflux. Things are just getting so exhausting for us. Between 12 am-5 am we are up because of his noises we can't sleep through them we try burping him we try feeding him again rocking him, changing diaper, everything. If we try too much then he gets mad. Any advice? I talked to his doctor today and she prescribed Ranitidine (Zantac) 2 ML twice daily. I don't want to have to give him medicine if I don't have to. It just seems like he's always in pain from day one and I feel like a failure! I also started yesterday propping his mattress up and have been feeding him smaller more frequent meals (keeping him upright for 20 min after feeding). Thank you for taking the time to read and respond!

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