Once your water breaks, you must rush to the hospital immediately… NOPE! If your water breaks but contractions haven’t started, that doesn’t necessarily mean you’re in active labor yet. Many people go into labor naturally within 12–24 hours. In most cases, your provider will keep an eye on you and your baby, monitoring for infection risk and waiting until contractions follow the 5-1-1 rule before deciding on next steps. ✨ Knowledge is power. Don’t let birth myths add extra stress to your journey

A water birth means at least part of your labor, delivery, or both happen while you’re in a birth pool filled with warm water. It can take place in a hospital, a birthing center, or at home. A doctor, nurse-midwife, or midwife helps you through it. Advantages: • Help ease pain • Keep you from needing anesthesia • Shorten your labor A warm bath might help you relax and help you feel more in control. Floating in water helps you move around more easily than in bed, too. Some science suggests that t