In labor!

Due 5/6 I'm currently 39 weeks. Woke up this morning at 6:30am with badddd cramps like period pains also with diarrhea :/ I sat there and put up with them thinking I was finally experiencing BH contractions as I went to my last doctors appointment he told me I wasn't dilated just starting to efface. Finally husband drove me after insisting I go to the hospital around 11am when I got there I was already 6cm and they took me into the room to set up for delivery. Currently deciding whether to have epidural or not as the pain is unreal and he is coming so quickly now almost 9cm.