As others have said, I definitely had the opposite problem.
I was the first in my group of friends to breastfeed, so my only real experience of it was hearing how easy and simple it was from my mum, who breastfed three children to six months.
At ante-natal classes, the message was that 99 per cent of women can breastfeed and, if it hurts, just latch the baby on again (if only it were that simple).
Therefore, when I had terrible problems breastfeeding, I thought I was doing something very wrong. My mum, who had had only easy breastfeeding experiences, told me that I should stop as it "wasn't working" and the midwives were no help at all.
The only reason I'm still going now, at eight months, is due to support from the bf pages on here, and one angel of a bfing co-ordinator who gave me confidence in the early days when I felt I'd failed.
I wish, wish, wish that my antenatal classes had been more honest and prepared me for what was to come. Naive as it sounds, I honestly thought that bfing was going to be putting the baby to the boob every three hours or so, for about 20 mins at a time.
If I'd known about mastitis being so common, I wouldn't have panicked when I got it three times. If I'd known my flat nipples were going to be problematic, I'd have been prepared to have to "pop" them out. And, above all, if I'd known how hard it was then I'd have expected it to be hard, and not worried that I was doing something dreadfully wrong.
When I was told that 99 per cent of women could breastfeed and one per cent couldn't, I thought I'd figure out pretty soon which I was. But it seems to me that it's not so black and white at all. For around three months, I couldn't breastfeed - and then, suddenly, I could.
All you can do, IMO, is get some breastpads and Lansinoh cream in (you really don't need anything else!) and then, when your baby arrives, try it. If feeding is easy, brilliant. If not, there is so much expert advice on these pages. But at least if you're aware it may not be easy, then you know where you can turn.