With my first I developed toxoplasimia, high blood pressure and fluid retention, at about week 28. For the next few weeks I was in and out of hospital as they tried to get my medication right, I ended up having to stay full time in hospital at about week 32 as none of the medication worked and I was taking 4 different ones and had to have complete bed rest, also I developed an allergy to one or more of the tablets so was having to use cortizone cream. They decided to induce at 38 weeks because of my condition, my waters broke the night before they were to induce so I was put straight on the drip. What followed was about 16hrs of pain and not much else. When my midwife came back on duty and found that I was only 1cm dilated, and the baby was showing distress the s**t hit the fan. Within an hour she had me prepped and in surgery. My DD was trapped in my pelvis, it took 2 doctors, kneeling on the operating table to get her out. She was very bruised and battered but happy and healthy. Induction, as you can see, didn't work for me but there are good stories out there too, everyone is different. My next 2 were planned caesarians as there was a flaw in my womb that made it impossible to have natural child birth. As I said before, we are all individuals.