Hi,

I'd say pretty much all of us have been through it. Know this: Mothers lie about sleep. There is such enormous pressure to get your baby sleeping through that women feel that they have to lie about it. It is simply normal for babies to feed 2-3 hourly - kind of like what we do (count the times in 24 hours you put something into your mouth - they tell us to have 6-8 glasses of water a day, for starters don't they?)
It's normal that your breasts feel just soft and normal after the first few week. and larger babies? Why is that a good thing, with the epidemic of obesity we are facing. Hang out in places that breastfeeding is normal - you could do no better than to join the Australian Breastfeeding Association. Mothers seem more prepared to be honest there.
Formula fed babies get sick more often and for longer. Its an important consideration when thinking of turning to formula