I have the same problem at the beginning too. My nipples are also too big, and my milk was late, the hospital ended up giving her formula. But now my BB is 6 weeks and she only takes breast milk from week 2. I am pumping full time at the moment. SO IF you really have difficult to breast feed u can always pump. If you can u can do it!
And at the beginning it is hard to pump a lot of milk out. I pumped nothing (less than 1ml of milk) for 3 days, 8 times a day initially, and my milk eventually came and now I pump over 100ml every session.
Do not give up, if you want to feed breast milk, every mother can do it!
wah, 12 times, i thought I am hard working..... that means u were pumping once every 2 hours - no sleep at all!!!
But yes I have no visitors until recently, I don't understand how some mums have the energy to entertain guests too. My mother in law wasn't happy and complained I couldn't cook good dinner (fish/soup/meat/vege for me and c6)...come on, I was so tired that I didnt want to eat.