So I was commenting to a friend that I've been feeling well (I'm at 33w) and she was asking about movement, etc. I told her that I sometimes feel like she's in a weird, firm square or ball in the middle of my belly and she said, oh, that's braxton hicks.

i always heard them described as crampy feeling, so that's why I never thought it was BH. does anyone have a better explanation of what they feel like? i'm going to ask my OB next week, not that it really matters, but i was just curious to your experience with BH.