Hi my name is elizabeth and my water broke with a leak how long before labor

You placed your question on the tail end of another question that was over a year old. So that your question will not go unanswered, I have moved it to a thread of it's own.

Now, to answer your question. If, indeed, your water did break, you need to get off the computer and get to the hospital now. Labor is imminent, actually, if your membranes are ruptured, you are in the early stages of labor already.

All of my babies are delivered within 24 hours of rupture of membranes.