By William West
Melbourne - Bangladeshi conjoined twins Trishna and Krishna appeared Sunday to have beaten the odds with their miracle story of survival, both awaking from landmark separation surgery happy and well.
As they faced the prospect of looking at each other face-to-face for the first time, the successful separation of the two-year-olds who were born joined at the head has been hailed as a medical triumph.
Their guardian Moira Kelly, who has cared for the girls since their arrival in Australia two years ago, said it was hoped that the children's cots could be brought together soon so they could touch each other.
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"They're too weak to look at each other, they're too sleepy so we're not there for that yet, but we're early days and you know, take it day by day," said Kelly, from the Children First Foundation charity.
Krishna and Trishna, who turn three next month, were separated by a 16-member medical team on Tuesday and are recovering slowly from the 32-hour marathon surgery at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne.
Trishna woke up on Thursday but Krishna, the weaker of the pair, emerged fully from the medically induced coma on Saturday. Both appear to be neurologically sound.
"Krishna was on my lap and I said I wasn't going to move anywhere, and I had her on my lap for a couple of hours and it was the first time she'd ever been held on her own," Kelly said.
"I mean you can't even imagine -- any human being, you don't have to be a mother, just a human being to realise how special that was."
Trishna and Krishna were delivered to the Mother Teresa orphanage in Dhaka shortly after their birth. It was there that Australian aid workers realised they faced certain death without help and began the process of bringing them to Australia for medical care.
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