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One of the recently separated conjoined twins with guardian Moira Kelly - Source: ONE News -
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Krishna began the slow process of waking from her medically induced coma on Friday after lifesaving surgery to separate her from her twin sister Trishna.
While Trishna was awake and talking on Thursday, it was a more prolonged and careful process to rouse Krishna, who faces more complications after the sisters' gruelling 32-hour surgery.
The twins, who were born joined at the head, were separated by a 16-member medical team at Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital on Tuesday.
"Krishna is waking up slowly. She is more alert, starting to breathe more and opening her eyes," a statement from the Royal Children's Hospital said on Friday.
A spokeswoman said Krishna's eyes had fluttered and she had moved her limbs.
Krishna's body has to make some major adjustments due to changes in her circulation and blood pressure.
The girls, who will celebrate their third birthday next month, are expected to remain in intensive care for the next few days.
The hospital's director of neurosurgery Wirginia Maixner said MRI scans on Wednesday revealed no damage had been done to the girls' brains during the operation.
The twins would remain in the care of the Children First Foundation in Melbourne for at least the next two years, the organisation's chief executive said.
Foundation chief Margaret Smith said the twins would need a large amount of support as they embarked on their individual journeys of recovery.
"They have got to be here for another couple of years. They are going to need a lot of additional help," she told AAP on Friday.
"They are here for the time being."
Smith said the girls' legal guardian, Children First Foundation founder Moira Kelly, considered herself their mother.
But it was too early to say whether she would consider adopting the twins.
"I think she'd like to do that, but that's something we can't make a decision on at the moment," she said.
The foundation raised almost $250,000 to care for the twins, who were brought to Melbourne for treatment from an orphanage in Dhaka, Bangladesh, two years ago.
A mystery benefactor funded the hospital costs, Smith said.
The $250,000 was solely for the cost of caring for Trishna and Krishna in between numerous operations to separate blood vessels connecting their brains.
Federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon said the government did not contribute to the cost of separating Trishna and Krishna because its responsibility was to run health care programs for Australians.
