Hi hon. I totally get why you would choose this path I personally don't have induction experience but just wondering if you had considered trying a stretch and sweep first? I have two best friends who are midwives and one of them suggested to me yesterday that I could ask my OB for a S&S at my appointment today providing my baby is engaged. It's kind of useless if they're not engaged but given your little man is, it could help you go into labour on your own

My sister was induced with both her boys due to a slow leak of amniotic fluid and testing positive to Strep B. Her first was really full on with all the induction 'bells and whistles'. It was super quick and quite traumatic for her. With her second, she was planning to go drug free at a birth centre. When the leak started, the midwife performed an ARM and contractions started within the hour. She had a fabulous one hour drug free labour and delivered in the bath at the birth centre

I have a few close friends who have had full inductions and most of them opted for an epidural at some point. One of them was just last week and she had the epi at the start of the induction. She had a very fast and traumatic drug free birth with her first born and didn't want to relive that. She absolutely loved her labour last week although she couldn't feel anything! It was quick (5 hours from start to finish) and pain free.

I've had (only) two friends end up with a CS from failed inductions but one was due to the mum having a severe allergic reaction to the gels and the other was due to the baby actually being really sick (I can't remember what was wrong with him but he spent a few days in the special care nursery) and not coping well with the induction at all.

Hope some of that info is helpful.