Oh and to answer your question - in my inductions, I tried to make them as normal as possible - walking, moving around. Many hospitals will require constant foetal monitoring now with an induction, but you can get your partner to hold the belts on you so that you can move around without too much difficulty. I did this with dd#5. My sister helped too - I didn't really have restricted mobility, used the ball, etc. I think if you can avoid an epidural, it will help.

I always asked them to increase the synt slowly and warned them that I was a quiet achiever so not to feel they had to bump the stuff up to make me look more like I was in labour!

When you go in for an induction, it's easy to feel like you've given up a natural birth and are in a highly medicalised environment, but it doesn't have to be that way. You don't have to accept everything they want you to do because they've stuck in a drip and taken control from the beginning.