The nanny who allegedly slaughtered two Upper West Side children in her care woke up yesterday — and asked about her own family, sources told The Post. 
 
 Yoselyn Ortega — who a source said suffered a broken vertebrae in a failed suicide bid after she allegedly butchered 6-year-old Lucia and 2-year-old Leo Krim — had been unable to speak since Thursday’s rampage. 
 
 She has since undergone surgery and is “talking a little,” according to a source. 
 
 Investigators returned yesterday to Ortega’s New York Hospital bedside in a bid to learn what sparked the horrific slayings of the Krim siblings, sources said. 
 
 Ortega, 50, has lawyered up and won’t answer questions, said one source. She did speak to her doctor and “asked about her family,” the source said. 
 
 NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said Ortega remained intubated yesterday. 
 
 Ortega shares a Harlem apartment with her sister, her niece and Ortega’s 17-year-old son, Jesus, who recently moved from their native Dominican Republic and attends a Bronx high school. 
 
 A search warrant executed on the nanny’s apartment turned up no clues of a motive in the slayings, according to another source. 
 
 The children’s grieving parents, CNBC exec Kevin Krim and wife Marina Linsley Krim, yesterday remained in seclusion with surviving daughter Nessie, 3 1/2. 
 
 The family left a Manhattan hotel early yesterday with friends, according to an employee. 
 
 Nessie had been with her mom at swimming lessons at the Jewish Community Center near the family’s West 75th Street apartment when the carnage took place. 
 
 Mom and daughter were happy and smiling as they left, a worker there recalled. They had planned to meet Ortega, with Lucia and Leo, for Lucia’s dance class at the nearby Kaufman dance studio at around 5 p.m. 
 
 But Ortega, who brought the kids home from school at around 3:30 that day, never showed up. 
 
 Marina Krim returned home shortly after 5:30 to find the nanny stabbing herself in the throat in an apparent suicide bid, and her two young children dead in the bathroom. 
 
 The tragedy has brought an outpouring of sympathy from strangers across the country, including one who posted an online message, “All the people are crying with you.” 
 
 Friends of the family also voiced their heartache and offered prayers and condolences on Facebook, where several relatives had posted tribute photos of the children. 
 
 In one poignant shot, Kevin’s sister Sarah walks hand in hand in New York with Lucia. 
 
 In another, aunt Katie Krim embraces her brother’s three beaming children alongside a caption that read: “The loves of my life, my angels.” 
 
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– The nanny who allegedly murdered two of the children in her care is awake and talking, the New York Post reports. Yoselyn Ortega already has a lawyer and won’t answer investigators’ questions about the deaths of Lucia Krim, 6, and brother Leo, 2, one source says. But she did ask about her family, the source adds. Investigators have searched her apartment, which she shares with her teenage son, sister, and niece, but found no hint of a motive. Toxicology tests found Ortega was not under the influence of narcotics or alcohol at the time. Ortega, who broke a vertebrae in her attempt to commit suicide, was still intubated yesterday. And as of yesterday, she had not been charged, since investigators had not been able to talk to her. “We wouldn’t charge a hospitalized suspect under these circumstances until an interview was conducted after consulting with doctors on the subject’s condition,” a police rep tells the AP. But investigators say they have much evidence, and there is very little doubt Ortega stabbed the two children. Click for more on the heartbreaking case.