Today was a good day, for the most part. The doula came over in the morning, and she helped me try nursing Z again. I think we did better this time, getting a good latch. There was some brief confusion as Z clearly remembered what a breast was, but had to be reminded what to do with it. It did start to hurt after a few minutes, so I took him off and repositioned him a couple times. Later, after Trish left, I tried again on the other breast, and it went pretty well too. I am cautiously optimistic--I'm still afraid repeated experiments might result in more pain, so for now I will just try the direct nursing once a day on each breast, but still keep pumping so we can bottle feed him the rest of the time. In a few days, if I'm not hurting, I'll ramp it up a bit, but I want to take things slow for now.