My gut tells me that position matters a lot to the success of an induction, as the clock starts ticking from the first contraction which will be doing what would normally happen at home prior to labour, ie baby rotating into a nice position. This leads to more c/s for "failure to progress" and "maternal exhaustion" that IMHO could be otherwise avoided by waiting a few more weeks. I would love to see the stats on what gestation women are when they are inducted for non medical reasons as I suspect that there are a lot of inductions between 38 and 41+6 weeks which is of course term. This will skew the statistics on average gestation for Australian women.

To be honest I would like to see induction for "overdue" to be properly studied and hopefully the whole practice stopped. Induction for PET or diabetes is another matter entirely but I feel that inductions are being offered for so many reasons (maternal exhaustion, partner's holidays, childcare) without any consideration of the medical implications of this. And I do not feel women are giving informed consent, because they are not told of the likely implications of an induction.