Hope someone can offer some help. I tried BF with my DD when she was born 2 years ago and finally gave up after about 5 weeks of frustration and what felt like failure.
The main difficulty I had was around the size/shape/lack of supprt I have with my breasts. They are very big (GG before any milk comes in) and aren't exactly what you would call pert, and have very large undefined/flat nipples as a result of their size, so I found it very very difficult to actually get her in a comfortable postion where her mouth was near the nipple and getting her to latch onto such a large flat nipple.
The other issue was around her seeming lack of interest in feeding for more than just a few seconds, which I suspected was lack of milk flow but I didn't know how to know. Maybe this was just normal but the other issues made it seem a lot worse, i.e. after taking forever to get her to latch it was just demoralising to have her de-latch after such a short time.
Anyway I did try (don't think I wimped out particularly) and went to BF support groups, but nothing they suggested really seemed to help. I have DC2 due in December and I would so love this to turn out differently this time, so any tips from women who have experienced similar issues but have had more success would be greatly appreciated.