Caleb Appiah Agyeman's Case Study

Caleb Appiah Agyeman was born on March 24th, 2015 at 3:25 am at Christ Hospital, located in Jersey City, NJ. Caleb was born two weeks before his original due date, April 4th, making him a preterm delivery. He was born a relatively healthy baby. The only complication at his birth was his mother having a cesarean section. The cesarean section was scheduled prior to his birth because his mother had a previous cesarean section with her second child. The male was born into a family of four, including his father, mother and two older siblings whom are both female. Being the last born of his family, and considering the seventeen-year age gap between him and his oldest sibling, Caleb is showered in love and surrounded by a vibrant family whom hail

His current age is a critical stage to know whom to trust and whom not to trust. Caleb has shown signs of this stage by being very friendly to those who care for him and aloof toward strangers, until they prove otherwise. Considering his age, Caleb also falls into the first stages of many other theories. By my observations, he fits the description given by each theorist. Based on Freud's Psychosexual theory, Caleb enjoys pleasuring his mouth. Everything that is given to him, whether edible or an inanimate object, will go into his mouth and he is delighted when doing so. Despite being told take the items out of his mouth, he continues with this act of pleasure. This sense of curiosity also explains a stage in Piaget’s Periods of Cognitive Development. This stage is called Sensorimotor, and it describes how Caleb uses his five senses to understand the obscure world around

Though I was unable obtain his immunization records, in consonance with the CDC (2015, p.1), Caleb should have received three doses of Hepatitis B, two doses of Rotavirus, three doses of DTaP, two doses of Hib, three doses of PCV13, and three doses of IPV. (CDC, 2015, p.1) His mother does not encourage the influenza vaccine considering that the shot can be ineffective at times. The vaccines he received have supplemented the lack of antibodies he received from only bottle-feeding. Though the World Health Organization (2015, p.1) recommends that infants be fed exclusively with breast milk for the first four to six months. Caleb only was breastfed until the age of four months because he preferred the bottle. Since he did not receive any antibodies, which as stated in the American Pregnancy Association article is “only found in breast milk” (American Pregnancy Association, 2015, p.1), it is expected that he can easily become sick, however Caleb is a relatively healthy baby. Although there was a time he had fallen ill, it was only due to a change in weather. It is too soon to determine whether this lack of breast milk will affect Caleb in the future, but as of now, he is doing well. He has been slowly introduced to solid foods and has a diet consisting of formula mixed with Gerber cereal and stage one baby food. The child is a difficult and fussy eater. Majority of the time his