This research is a descriptive correlational, cross-sectional, conducted in order to determine the relationship between the clinical characteristics of labor and fetal distress in mothers treated at the Hospital II-2 MINSA Tarapoto. Period June-September 2014. The study population consisted of 40 mothers whose births concomitant with acute fetal distress that were treated at the Hospital II-2 MINSA Tarapoto from June to September 2014 that formed the study group. Data collection was performed by reviewing medical records, which were processed through SPSS to determine the relationship between variables of study; reached the following conclusions: in most patients, the clinical characteristics of labor were normal or physiological; some clinical feature of labor dystocia were dystocia uterine hypertonia and dynamic as hyper systole (22.5%); dystocia fetal presentations (15.0%); cervical d...