Background and objectives: Induction of labour means stimulation of contractions before the birth starts spontaneously, with or without ruptured membranes. The most common indications include oligohydramnios, pre-labour rupture of the membranes, high blood pressure during pregnancy, severe fetal growth restriction, post-term pregnancy, and var-ious maternal medical conditions such as chronic hypertension and diabetes. The aim of the study was to find out the different indications of labour and associated obstetrical factors in a local tertiary hospital. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among 120 parturient women who attended a delivery room in the Maternity Teaching Hospital in Erbil City from the period of 2nd June to 2nd October 2020. After reviewing the literature, a questionnaire was pre-pared to obtain socio-demographic data, data related to reproductive characteristic and data related to the indications for labour induction. The data were analyzed using descrip-tive and inferential statistical approaches. Results: The study included 120 patients with the highest percentage of the patients (49.1%) were 16 to 23 years old and more than half of the sample (51.6%) had a post-term pregnancy, gestational hypertension and pre-eclampsia (15%). There were highly significant statistical differences between parity, gestational age and indication of labour induction, and significant differences between gravidity and antenatal care visits and indi-cations for labour induction. Conclusions: The majority of the sample had a post-term pregnancy of 40 and 42 weeks as an indication for induction of labour followed by gestational hypertension and pre-eclampsia, oligohydramnios and pre-labour rupture of membrane. There was a statistical-ly significant difference between the antenatal care visit and parity with the induction of labour.

Background and objectives: Induction of labor refers to the stimulation of contractions ‎before the labor starts spontaneously, with or without ruptured membranes. The aim of the present study was to compare the ‎maternal outcomes of induced versus spontaneous labor.‎ Methods: A comparative study was conducted in Maternity Teaching Hospital in Erbil ‎city from ‎February 2020 to February 2021. Using purposive (non-probability) ‎sampling techniques, ‎‎240 pregnant women (120 with induced labor and 120 with spontaneous ‎labor) were recruited into the study. Through direct interviews, a proper researcher-designed questionnaire ‎was ‎utilized to collect required data. ‎The collected data were ‎analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistical approaches.‎ Results: There were significant to ‎highly significant differences between the two delivery methods in terms of maternal outcomes, ‎emergency cesarean section, postpartum blood loss, need for blood ‎transfusion, uterine ‎atony, perennial laceration, and postpartum hospital stay.‎ ‎Conclusions: There were the significance to highly significance difference of the ‎maternal ‎outcomes between induced and spontaneous labor.