The guardian of twins Krishna and Trishna says her beautiful girls have defied the odds, and that the surgeons who separated them performed a miracle.
Moira Kelly was still trying to come to grips with the fact that the Bangladeshi girls, formerly joined at the head, are now sleeping in separate cots for the first time in their two years and 11 months of life.
''To see these two beautiful little people, two brave, brave little girls ... and I'm in the middle of them,'' a tearful Ms Kelly said yesterday.
The two girls, found in a Dhaka orphanage in 2007, are in a serious but stable condition in intensive care at the Royal Melbourne Children's Hospital.
They are still in a coma but underwent MRI scans on their brains yesterday. ''When we see how beautiful they are we all should be so proud to be Australian to see what we've accomplished,'' Ms Kelly said.
Ms Kelly, founder of the Children First Foundation, was instrumental in bringing the conjoined twins from the orphanage to Melbourne in December 2007.
They are expected to wake up over the next 48 hours and it is only then that doctors will start to know the success of the separation.
The hospital has stuck to forecasts that the twins have only a 25 per cent chance of complete recovery, a 50 per cent chance of brain damage and a 25 per cent chance one of them will die.
But Ms Kelly said her two ''precious little girls'' were looking very good. AAP
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