Major Characters. Stanley Yelnats He is the fifteen-year-old main character, the protagonist of the novel. His family has a history of bad luck, and accordingly, Stanley is wrongfully convicted of stealing, and is sent to the detention center, Camp Green Lake.
Term placentas were used as the control group. Exclusion criteria included pregnancies with <32 weeks gestation, diabetes, hypertension, preeclampsia, smoking (consumption >5 cigarettes/day), alcoholism or drug use, twin or multiple pregnancies and genetic diseases in the newborn.
There were two ways of doing this with a placenta previa: 1  The baby's head can be brought down to the placental site (if necessary with Willet's forceps or a vulsellum) and a weight attached to its scalp. 2  A leg can be brought down and the baby's buttocks used to compress the placental site.