Any lovelies can share their birth experience?

Just delivered 1 week ago and as a first time mum! The week before I delivered i felt alot of braxton hicks, on the day Itself I started to have very consistent contractions but I’m someone with higher pain tolerance so even though the contraction was consistent, I didn’t think of it as actual labour coming soon. Nevertheless, I could go to sleep but suddenly wokeup in the middle of the night. This time round, the pain from the contractions got me pulling my bedsheets, so I decided to head down to hospital and was later found out being 6cm dilated. i was immediately pushed to the delivery suite. The contractions started coming faster and stronger, the laughing gas could only helped 30% of the pain for me. The laughing gas also kind of made me feel dizzy, heavy but you still can feel quite abit of the pain. Soon after, I felt I couldn’t withstand the pain or I did not want to be in this much pain anymore. So I got them faster did my blood test to be eligible for epidural. During the epidural administration, my husband almost fainted upon seeing the needle. 😂 When they injected, it felt kind of weird, not painful but you could feel someone pulling your nerves or something in the body. I also had an electric shock during the process but soon after, I stopped feeling pain once it kicks in and which it was super fast. That moment, it felt like bliss once again. My total active labour timing was 15mins of pushing. One down side of epidural is, as you can’t feel the pain or discomfort, without having feelings is hard for you to do the pushing. So must listen to those midwives very well and their instructions. And tada! Baby is out! On the side note, my mom was dissing me for taking epidural as she said last time they all never take and also can give birth like that. But just listen to your body, if cannot then take or if you wish to feel less pain then go for it. As of today, i still think.. the most painful moment is not just delivering but is after being delivered. Phewwwwww 🤧 In summary, nothing wrong with wanting less painful labour by taking gas or epidural. Also we don’t have to think that those without having those are real heroes.