Posterior labours are typically slower to start so patience is so important. I wouldn't focus on the synto, which will leave you more likely to have an epidural and even less likely baby will turn and more likely a c/s... happened to my client last night. Induced spot on at 42 weeks with a posterior bub (already 1.5cm), waters were broken and nothing happened at all for around 5 hours so she agreed to the drip (which she hated as she kept saying she felt restricted 'caged' and couldn't move around), had intense labour pain for another 5 hours (4 in 10min contrax) and internal revealed still 1.5cm. She had an epi, so drip was pumped up, baby became stressed, drip turned down but to late - emergency c/s.

I'd be working harder to move that bub, because I have seen this scenario happen a couple of times now. The ironic thing is the midwives have never been able to tell the baby was posterior at the time, I actually insisted at this last birth that baby was, because there was so much trouble trying to get the heartbeat, mum had backpain during contrax, nothing happened with the waters were ruptured and the drip was doing nothing. I am not saying this will happen to everyone, but women do need to know and prepare for the fact that induction does fail. Women's bodies aren't designed to cope with a quick, intense early labour stage (from the drip) and especially not when their body and baby is not ready.

To show you how clever babies are... and I have told this story many times, but when mum was pregnant with me, I was breech..... born 9 days late but had managed to turn head down the day before - so on the 8th day I turned. Should I have been born in 2007, I would have been born over 3 weeks early as I would have been a c/s babe at 38 weeks.

Poeterior babes are birthable. Its not a woman's failure to progress here. It's the medical system's failure to wait.