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I don't know the details but I'm hoping this will make you feel better--2 people I know just were induced in the past 2 weeks, and delivered within 12 hours of start of induction

I started cervidil Tuesday night. Water broke naturally Wednesday morning (6am) i was able to labor naturally until 2-3 when i asked for the epidural but got stadol until the anthesiologist could come i was so relaxed! Started pushing at 10pm Wednesday. She was born at 1 am (early Thursday morning) and we got to our room about 4 am. I guess my total time in labor and delivery was Tuesday at 8pm through Thursday at 4 am so 32 hours

My induction story is similar to @artbee's .... I was scheduled for a Thursday induction at 39 weeks (high BP) but my water broke Monday morning at 6 a.m. I still had pitocin because my contractions didn't start on their own, though, so still technically an induction, I guess. I got an epi late that afternoon and he was born vaginally at 9:45 at night.

I was induced and it went wayyyyyyyy better than I ever imagined. I was terrified too because I wanted a natural labor so bad, and I knew I was kind of going in the opposite direction with induction. I can't post in detail cuz I am on my phone right now, but I will hop on shortly and give you the story. In the mean time you can check out my birth story.

Don't be nervous....trust your doctors and nurses! I had an amazing experience overall (even though my epidural didn't work the first time). I was in labor for 14.5 hours.

Awh! Thanks for asking this, mediagirl. I'm so scared of pitocin contractions. Maybe I'll be able to share my experience this weekend!

@mediagirl: Yup it is, but at the same time, (i'm not sure if you want an epidural) you can't eat on that stuff because you;ll simply barf! Honestly, just sucking on ice made me puke.. but that's the effects of drugs for ya!

@mediagirl: haha i know how you feel! I have ZERO tolerance for pain. I did want to try to go sans epidural the second time around but knew i'd be to chicken to decline it when they asked. Luckily I didn't have time for it... and glad I did it sans! but then again, it was my second. (much faster!)

@mediagirl: I didn't eat for well over 30 hours. I was only hungry the first few hours at the hospital, and not toward the end, of labor.
I was starving after delivery but had to wait another 12+ hours after surgery to eat. That was tough.

Came into the hospital the night before my delivery. They put in some Cervadil, but after a couple of hours it was causing the baby's heart beat to decline, so then they had to use this water balloon a.k.a. old school method of opening up my cervix. The nurse told me that the balloon was painful, so I asked to get my epi before they put the balloon in and I literally felt no pain until the epi fell out, but NO ONE believed me (that's another story). Then the next morning, they broke my water and I was ready to push. I ended up having my baby vaginally.

I was induced at 39w7d (day before EDD). Pretty close approximation (I didn't take exact notes on times):

7:30 AM-arrived at hospital
8:15 AM-into room/changed into gown/settled/hooked up to IV and monitors; internal check (2cm)
8:30 AM-pitocin started
10:30 AM-internal check (3cm?)
12:00PM-epidural administered (4cm)
12:30PM-doc broke my water
1:00PM-baby's heart rate dropped but oxygen and repositioning me stabilized it (too much happened in one hour with epidural and water being broken)
2:00PM-internal check (8cm); everything was set up for delivery
4:00PM-internal check (10cm, fully effaced); started practice pushes while waiting for doc
4:54PM-DD arrived

My nurse told me active labor lasted about 5 hours.

My doc hadn't given me any instructions on whether to eat or not prior to arriving at the hospital and so I had some yogurt, glad I did because once I was admitted I couldn't have anything except ice chips. They brought me dinner about an hour after LO was born.