I haven't had a natural (or un-induced) birth (YET!!) but my induced birth was rather traumatic too. I was indused due to leaking waters. I was in labour for just under 24hrs, that's from nothing to contractions 5mins apart within an hour of having the drip inserted. It was painful and in my opinion my baby wasn't ready to be born yet. Because labour wasn't progressing, the ob kept on trying to push a c/s on me. I refused it, but about 2hrs before she was born, he was going to take me anyway and I nearly said yes. Thankfully I didn't give in. I was hooked up to machines to keep an eye on baby so I couldn't have an active birth like I wanted. I was in pain for so long I had gas and pethdine (which made me soooo sick) even though I didn't want it in my birth plan. She got stuck twice and it took me 3 hrs to push her out. I almost had to go under anasthetic to have my placenta manually removed cause it was taking so long to come out, I haemmoraged quite badly when it did come out (I think cause the dr pulled my placenta out). Breast feeding didn't happen when I first had her because I was just so tired. I didn't hold her or snuggle straight after birth she was left in her crib cause I was too weak and drugged up to really notice. I was just so relieved it was over. Breast feeding was very difficult for our whole journey (6mths) which I blame on a traumatic birth.
I am going to do everything I can to avoid being induced again. In my opinion if you don't need to be induced (mentally or physically), don't do it. It can lead to a cascade of intervention which you may not have had if your labour started spontaneously.