See all these decellerations and heartrate drops - all symptoms of artificial induction. Your uterus is being pushed harder and faster, so while you may not feel it with an epidural, the baby is getting a thrashing still in the womb, some aren't fussed by it, but alot suffer with the stress. You didn't need that c/s. The induction made it necessary. A midwife at the women's said that so many women come in for inductions with fuzzy reasons, and of the first time mums, she says anywhere between 50-75% end up with c/s. Then they have the implications of fighting for a VBAC next time.

Inform and educate yourself is all I can say. If you find you really may not need an induction, it will save you one or all of the following: more intense pain, no natural release of oxytocin (and syntocinon doesnt cross the blood brain barrier so it doesnt act like normal oxytocin (the hormone of love and labour), c/s, epidurals (which in its own leads to more vacuum, forceps, reduced blood pressure then less oxygen to the baby possible c/s, seen it happen), emotional struggles, separation at birth, then all the vbac stuff on top of it. Its not as simple as a bit of drugs to start labour like it would normally. Its a very unnatural thing and can result in a very unnatural labour and birth. Of course in cases like pre-eclampsia it's worth it... but if it's not an emergency then why make it one?