Twins' birth mum wants daughters to stay

 Yahoo News The birth mother of twins Krishna and Trishna who gave them up due to poverty says she wants them to remain in Australia to be educated.

The two-year-old conjoined Bangladeshi twins were separated by a 16-member surgical team during marathon surgery at Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital this week.

Lavlee Mollik, 22, handed over her girls to an orphanage in Dhaka one month after birth because she and husband Kartik, 35, were unable to care for them, News Ltd newspapers reported on Saturday.

"I want them to live in Australia and be educated in Australia. And one day when they have become very respected people I want them to call me mother."

Mrs Mollik, speaking through a translator by telephone from Bangladesh, said she was praying for her daughters' safe recovery.

She was tracked down by Bangladeshi newspaper Daily Shamokal.

But the couple are unable to care for them and Mrs Mollik wants them to live and be educated in Australia.

"We don't want them back because we don't have the ability to take proper care of them," Mrs Mollik said.

Twin awake , talking after epic surgery

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Within hours of waking up from a medically induced coma after ground-breaking brain surgery to separate her from her twin sister, Trishna was talking and cuddling her guardian.

"She is talking, she is being Trishna, she's behaving the way she always has, she's fantastic," proud neurosurgeon Wirginia Maixner said.

Ms Maixner, the Royal Children's Hospital's director of neurosurgery, worked for 27 hours with her colleague Alison Wray to separate the conjoined twin girls Trishna and Krishna.

Trishna awoke on Thursday morning and was cuddled and comforted by her legal guardian Moira Kelly, founder of the Children First Foundation, who was instrumental in bringing the twins from Bangladesh to Melbourne for surgery in December 2007.

"She's been cuddling Moira, which is lovely, she's been talking to our speech therapist," Ms Maixner told reporters in Melbourne on Thursday.

"She's just come through major, major, major surgery. It is a huge operation, so she is phenomenally good at the moment."