Seperated twins stable in hospital

Twin girls born attached at their midsections showed no signs of infection on the second of many critical days following their lengthy separation surgery.

Ten-month-old Regina and Renata Salinas were in a serious but stable condition today at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, where they were in intensive care cribs.

They were on ventilators and sedated “for their comfort”, hospital spokesman Steve Rutledge said.

The twins were born facing each other and joined from the lower chest to the pelvis. They were separated in surgery that began on Wednesday morning and ended before dawn on Thursday.

The girls’ parents, Sonia Fierros, 23, and Federico Salinas, 36, brought the children from Mexico. They have not decided whether they will return.