We thought our toddler’s meltdowns were just the terrible twos — until a devastating diagnosis

Ada’s symptoms began in November 2025, when she was only two (Picture: Jam Press/@aliciavaldez930)‘My first thought was that she was going to die.’When Alicia Bridge’s two-year-old daughter Ada began to have meltdowns, often screaming and crying for an hour at a time, the mum put it down to her age.Even doctors initially thought Ada’s unusual behaviour was down to the so-called ‘terrible twos’, but a blood test revealed the shocking news that the little