DD was born at EDD+11 and i had been booked for induction by AROM at EDD+14 and had absolutely no intention of actually going in for it!

The stillbirth risks increase in the 43rd week, so they don't like you to get into it. The risk increases 6fold - that's 0.4 stillbirths per 1000 births up to 2.7 per 1000. For me that "substantial" (from way less than 0.04% to 0.27% increase in risk (which by the way is from a study done in the 1950's) was not enough to make me worry or consider induction - studies have shown that induction before 42 weeks make no difference to neonatal mortality rates. Most overdue babies who die are born between 42 and 43 weeks, but this is true whether they are induced at that point or not - fewer die if they're born at 43 weeks, so it makes as much sense to try to prevent birth between 42 and 43 weeks as it does to hasten it before 42 weeks.

I had scans and monitoring to made sure DD was fine (she was) every 3 days for the last 2 weeks (i had high BP so they started monitoring me a bit sooner than 40weeks) but i don't even know if i'd bother doing that next time.

My placenta looked perfect and DD had short nails and masses of vernix and didn't look 11 seconds overdue, let alone 11 days!

My sister was born at EDD+24 (that's right, nearly a month!) after a 96 hour posterior labour and she was absolutely perfect.

Bx