I was having what I can only imagine were painful braxton hicks last week, they were centered/to the left, and stretched the length of my stomach. And the pain would come in sharp pains, but timeable. I thought at first I was getting the flu, but I realized that the pain would come every 5-10 minutes, and I've never had a flu I could time.
I laid on my left side, drank water and watched some movies with the kids.