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No point in feeling guilty. It is a lot of work in the beginning, but after I got it working, it made parenting a lot easier. The hard part was about 6 weeks for me. Not messing with bottles was great, but the best part is that whenever my daughter gets hurt, all I have to do is nurse her and she is better within seconds. She busted her lip a couple of times and there was all this blood and I felt a little hysterical not knowing how bad it was and if I had to take her to the hospital. I just popped my breast in and the screaming stopping in about 10 seconds and about a minute later she wanted to go play. Also, very helpful with teething and sickness.
I put in a lot of work to nurse, but I never followed a schedule or was consistent about taking the right number of pills or pumping X number of times a day or anything. I think if you pump when you can, including at least once a night, and take domperidone, you will probably be successful. Domperidone is the most important part in my success. It got things working and then I was able to go off it with no problem.
You will never be able to do all the things you think you should do for your child. Just do what you can and don't feel guilty about the rest.
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