If you didn't feel ready then you probably did the right thing. I had the gel applied at 41 weeks and nothing happened Bub obviously wasn't cooked enough. I ended up going to almost 43 weeks and Bub was induced and he came out with no trouble and was only 7lbs (I expected at least a 9 pounder he was so late!). The risk of something going wrong just because you're past 41 weeks is so so tiny. With monitoring (like you had at the hospital) it's basically zero.

One thing my OB said to me was to imagine what it would be like after I'd had the baby. He said that if it ended in a caesar, for example, I could at least say to myself (and the women at mothers' group) that I had waited as long as I could. If I'd gone at 41 weeks and it had ended in a caesar I'd always be second guessing myself. He was very right. One of my girlfriends had a caesar and she keeps going over and over what she did or didn't do 'right'.