Congratz PZ!

Your BFing journey so far sounds the same as mine word for word!

Just to give you some hope we are fine now. It took us 3 months to fully establish BFing.
We went from hand expressing, to pumping, to a nipple sheild then finally to the nipple!

It will happen! But I know it's sooo frustrating when you just want it to work!

You defo need to find a good LC and see them often, they are so reassuring even if they can't 'fix' the problem for you