Welcome Renstar, Thanks for sharing. I have read your other thread and as I said there I have been in a similar situation as have many others in this thread. I hope you can get to BF exclusively but if you end up EEing you are doing the next best thing.
Flat nipples def make it harder to BF! My DD just couldn't form my flat nipples to be able to effectively BF. I think the full time pumping has drawn them out so next time the flatness won't be a prob! I did try to put her to the boob the other day but she had no idea what it was for :-(