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I was not able to, no. I probably could have tried more but the whole thing was so stressful... I wish you the best of luck.

Have you tried a nipple shield? It was the only thing that worked to get my LO to latch

I wasn't able to get LO to latch, and I started to EP on day 2. After a week of trying to get him to latch while pumping around the clock, I gave up. It didn't work out for us.

@MamaCate: I'm in a similar position with my LO, I'm putting her to the breast every feed before topping her up with a bottle if she still seems hungry afterwards. The LC seemed optimistic that if I continued to offer the breast first that she would get the hang of latching better when she was a bit bigger and had more energy. I know that's not exactly answering your question since I'm not EPing but I hope that it's helpful

I EP'd for a month and then started breastfeeding. Still going at 5.5 months. I started pumping because my nipples were annihilated from her terrible latch. I contined pumping until they healed and tried once per day or every other day to get her to latch. Sometimes I would be so discouraged, tired, and in pain I went 3-4 days without trying to get her to latch. Finally around 4 weeks she started latching onto the nipple shield. Slowly we transitioned over to that, and then around 8 weeks ditched the nipple shield.

I think the birth process was so long and taxing for her and her mouth was so tiny and my breasts were giant and engorged--all those factors were working against us.

I will not hesitate to take this same path with future LO. Good luck mama!!