You can induce yourself. Naturally. Two good things about it: one, if the baby isn't ready, it won't induce and two, if baby is ready not only does it induce, but it cleans you out too (and that's better at home than at the hospital!)

Take a small bottle of castor oil. This amounts to a few really good gulps..and the stuff is wretched...I took it with rootbeer (as recommended by the nurse.) Voila' baby within 10 hours!

Good wishes.