The reason for the IOL is pure anxiety. I think there is some truth in pelvis shape determining that the baby will be born ROP and that synto from the very beginning would at least shorten the labour. I feel like I could endure a 6-8 hour induced labour but not another multi day marathon. My concern is that the multi day labour will crack me mentally (for various reasons) and that's not a good place to start with a newborn.
What would you do with an ROP baby that refused to budge? Is there anything that would stop labour being so long and painful again? I don't know of anything but I'm not a doula or MW.
At the moment I'm planning on tackling my antenatal MW at the next appointment and discussing a plan that involves going into labour spontaneously and asking for augmentation early if it looks like a repeat rather than IOL. I don't really want the IOL I'm just paniking and looking for anything to get me out of a repeat labour.





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