After having had an induction that ended in a CS after 12 hours I would advise anyone to do everything they can to avoid having one. Yes there are some circumstances where it is necessary to induce, but if it isn't then why do it...

In my case my hind waters broke and my OB agreed to give me 96 hours to go into labour naturally as I had my show while I was at the hospital. But DS had never engaged and didn't, so four days later I was induced. After being in position he turned and ended up posterior and his head lodged in my pelvis at the worst possible angle. In the end I had to go for an emergency CS.

I think if you are going to be induced I would personally try and have the gels to start with over the syntocin drip, from what I've read they are a lot gentler than the drip. I had to have the drip because my waters had broken and within an hour of it starting I was having contractions every two minutes that lasted 70 seconds, not long after I ended up with terrible nausea from the pain and opted for an epidural after 3 hours after initially hoping to only use the TENS machine. I'm not a medical expert, but an induction isn't just hard on the mother, I believe it is also very stressful for the bub and in my case think that it was the stress of the extreme contractions from the beginning that caused him to freak out and change position.

After the labour the midwife who was with me through it told me that while she had never given birth she thought that the intensity of induced contractions is twice that of contractions you have in a spontaneous labour. I don't if it is true or not, or if she was trying to make me feel better about having had the epidural, but for me it definately wasn't the labour experience that I had hoped for.

I hope I haven't been too negative, but thought I should share my experience with you. FWIW if it was me I wouldn't agree to an induction unless there is a very good medical reason for it.