By Nick Bryant
BBC News, Sydney
**Doctors in Australia who separated conjoined twins in a long operation earlier this week, say both the girls are expected to make a full recovery.**One of the children has already woken up, and is said to look fantastic.
The twins, who turn three next month, had been joined at the top of their heads and shared brain tissue and blood vessels.
They were separated on Tuesday after a marathon 25 hours of delicate surgery by a team of surgeons.
Doctors at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne seem genuinely taken aback by the extraordinarily rapid progress of Trishna and Krishna.
Trishna has now been awoken from a medically-induced coma, and is talking and behaving normally.
Doctors have decided she is doing so well that she has already been able to leave intensive care.
She looked “brilliant”, they said, and “was behaving the way she always had”.
Krishna will be brought out of a coma later today and will require a longer period of recuperation because the surgeons had to make more changes to her body and blood circulation.
But the long-term prognosis is still “really really good”, according to the doctors.