Blondie having recently gone through cracked bleeding nipples, mastitis and nipple thrush myself I know that pain. You are doing an amazing job expressing all those feeds! I struggled through the pain using nipple shields and am just coming out the other side now after three weeks of agony with each feed. The shields helped though - did you try them? I'm scared of weaning DS off them but like you I really want DS to have breast milk so I will do what it takes. Congrats on being such a committed Mumma!