After being found unresponsive, face-down in her bathtub late last month, Bobby Brown and the late Whitney Houston’s daughter Bobbi Kristina was placed in a medically-induced coma, with her future unknown as doctors named her condition “severe.”

After several weeks, tons of unfounded rumors (like the family would take her off of life support on the anniversary of her mother’s death on February 12) and small glimmers of hope, doctors have now made the decision to take Bobbi off the medication that keeps her in the coma.

“We’re all hoping and praying that this will give us some answers,” a family source told PEOPLE, who adds that her condition remains severe. She will, however, remain on life support.

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PEOPLE also spoke with an acclaimed professor with knowledge of neurocritical care to explain the reasoning, though she is NOT treating this specific case.

“They take them off a medically induced coma for two reasons – because the underlying problem has improved, or to simply get a sense of what the patient is able to do for themselves. Obviously, she did not meet the criteria for brain death if she underwent a tracheostomy. She still could have a devastating injury, though.”

Our prayers are with the Brown and Houston families!

Source: PEOPLE