Link to the blog by the doctors at OU Medical Center.

History was made today at the OU medical center’s Children’s Hospital when two-month-old conjoined twins were surgically separated.

A hospital official gave live updates on a blog during the surgery on a Blackberry.

“I was trying to create an atmosphere for the audience who couldn’t be here to see this,” said Allen Poston, director of public relations at Children’s Hospital.

While he was in the operating room witnessing the surgery firsthand, Poston said he blogged exactly what he saw.

“Sometimes you can forget about the preciousness of life…I’m standing here in the operating room looking at the exposed, beating heart of Preslee Wells,” Poston said in his blog at 10:55 a.m.

Kylee and Preston Wells’ surgery began at 10:22 a.m. and they were separated at approximately 12:14 p.m., Poston said in his blog.

He said the babies are separated but were placed in the Newborn Intensive Care Unit under “critical condition.”

There will be a press conference later this week, Poston said, but it will be when the family has time to recover.

He said it has been nearly 25 years since the hospital has done anything like this and it is hard to say if and when it will ever happen again.

Poston said he hopes the hospital will use a blogging style of communication during future operations.

“I think this way of communication has the potential to reach large groups of people,” he said.