Have a look at the following articles.

Naturally Inducing Labour
Induction of labour - to induce or not induce?

I suggest also looking into getting yourself a doula - yes it is late term pregnancy, but if your obstetrician is going to force you into induction he certainly isn't going to make an intervention free labour easy for you. As Kelly would say, he's just looking out for his bedtime.

Maybe check out this article to; Natural birth - giving birthj without intervention.

Remember that an artificial induction is the beginning of the cascade of intervention. Full term is considered anywhere between 40-42 weeks and if it was me unless there was placenta detrioration etc I wouldn't be letting them touch me beforehand.