Kahlan - from personal experience I would avoid induction. I was one of these lucky people who went into labour natuurally with DS, however he was in distress so they wanted to spead things up so they broke my waters and gave me the drugs it went from nice easy contractions that I could move and talk through to contractions that come on top of each other and was the worst pain I have ever experienced. When you dont get that nice slow build up to the final event your body does not produce the adrenaline to help you through the pain. For us it was neccessary but the pain instantly increased. But this is only my experience.