In my experience, I wound up being induced but it didn't go as planned. I was due to have the gels inserted on the wednesday evening but DS decided to come early so I went into labour (not established though) on Tuesday morning. My labour didn't progress and I wound up having my waters broken and being induced with the synto drip. I found it really intense and not a pleasant experience. I won't go into too much detail because my body is mine and yours is yours, so the experience won't be the same and I don't want to scare you. It's a shame I missed out on the gel. I think that would have made the world of difference. Perhaps not though. At any rate DS was experiencing decelerations in his heart rate, and there was meconium in the water so, after 28.5 hours of labour, I wound up having an emergency c-section. At the end of the day DS was born safely so that's all that matters.