As she was foaling after the foal was at his hips (they were beginning to show) he quit progressing. I have seen a foal kick a mare so bad at foaling that her uterus tore and she bled to death. So, with each contraction I turned him and pulled each leg out bending his legs so they could clear the birth canal. When the the cord snapped because of the pressure on it I pinched his naval closed and pinched off the cord to the mare and sent someone running for blood stop (as if that was going to help the mare). I had mare in one hand and baby in the other and once I got baby to stop bleeding I tied the cord in a tight knot. As for the placenta, (I would not try this unless you are experienced. you can kill your mare) I was told to put pressure on the placenta (not too much as you can tare the uterus) at a 45 degree angle (don't pull out and don't pull down) This was enough to start the contractions again. Keep the pressure until the placenta totally released and drops out. You can then inspect the placenta to make sure it is complete. One thing I did think about is, when we got her she was being fed grass hay. The woman we got her from even gave us a couple of bales of the grass hay she was eating to make sure she still got "what she was use to eating). I wonder if the grass hay had anything to do with the problems we encountered.