smithy - i would be querying why he is pushing induction at 38weeks - if the baby is ready to come at 38weeks it will come on it's own. unfortunately, it's not uncommon to be told things are favourable when they're not - i was told things were more favourable then they had been in the previous examinations when i was induced with DD - but the Ob ONLY induced (and very gently - gels for 2 days first) because i had pre-eclampsia that was getting progressively worse over a period of almost a month. had it not been for the PE, he would not have induced (the gels were to try to make my cervix more favourable for full induction - even that didn't work and i had NO dilation at all until i'd been on the drip for over 5 hours AND had my membranes ruptured (went pretty quickly from then and it wasn't pleasant!)

as much as i was petrified of something going wrong with DD, i wouldn't have gone through with an induction JUST because the baby was an AC baby