I was induced and I hate that - no one here has judged me for it, but I feel like a failure myself. Yes, I was really overdue and yes, it needed doing, but I'm still not happy about it. I can't read anyone else's birth stories here just because I feel so bad that I wasn't able to birth my son the way I'd wanted to. I can't talk about birth without wanting to cry, I feel that much of a failure. (Yes, I know this isn't right, but it's just who I am; I have very high standards for myself and you just learn to live with feeling this way about even one dirty dish left in the sink.)

You don't need pain relief for it, btw, it isn't really that much more painful. I didn't have the problem of drugs not being given, I had the problem where I was fighting them off for hours, then as soon as I said OK I had an epidural in before I could blink; I think my midwives were worried that I was going to change my mind!