As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly create a weaning plan for your baby.

What to actually do

1. Hand it to a person

   The route this page recommends

   A person who owns the outcome does this end to end, worth it when the failure is dear.

2. Use a tool built for this

   Second choice

3. Do it yourself

   The distant third

   A chat interface, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 30 minutes until you can act on the result.

   How to actually do it

   1. 1. Open the NHS baby weaning and feeding guidance at https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/baby/weaning-and-feeding/ and note its advice on readiness, textures, allergens, choking risks and foods to avoid.
   2. 2. Gather your baby's age, corrected age if premature, milk feeds, foods already tolerated, allergies or reactions, eczema, reflux, swallowing concerns and any advice from your health visitor or GP.
   3. 3. Paste the prompt into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini and replace every bracketed slot with your details, leaving out unnecessary private information.
   4. 4. Ask the chatbot to produce the plan and to stop for health-professional advice if your baby has a medical, allergy or swallowing concern.
   5. 5. Compare each safety instruction and food restriction in the plan with the NHS page, removing any instruction that the chatbot cannot support there.
   6. 6. Ask your health visitor, GP or paediatric dietitian to check the plan before using it if your baby was premature or has eczema, allergies, swallowing problems, poor weight gain or another medical concern.
   7. 7. Turn the checked plan into a shopping list and prepare only textures and portions that you can supervise safely.

   Prompt

   Create a cautious UK baby-weaning plan using current NHS guidance from https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/baby/weaning-and-feeding/ as the primary reference. Do not diagnose, and do not replace advice from a health visitor, GP or paediatric dietitian.
   
   Baby details:
   - Age: [age]
   - Born prematurely: [yes/no, and corrected age if relevant]
   - Current milk feeds: [breast milk, formula or both]
   - Signs of developmental readiness already observed: [details]
   - Known allergies or reactions: [details]
   - Eczema, reflux, swallowing problems or other medical conditions: [details]
   - Foods already tried and tolerated: [details]
   - Family or cultural foods to include: [details]
   - Equipment, budget or preparation limits: [details]
   
   First, identify any missing information that makes a safe plan impossible. If prematurity, eczema, a known allergy, swallowing difficulty, poor weight gain or another medical concern is relevant, tell me to speak to my health visitor, GP or paediatric dietitian before following an individual plan.
   
   Then produce a practical plan for [number of days] days. Include:
   1. A simple meal or tasting schedule with suitable textures and preparation instructions.
   2. Foods that provide iron and other useful nutrients, while making clear that milk remains important.
   3. A careful approach to introducing common allergens, without inventing medical advice or claiming that a food is safe for this baby.
   4. Choking-risk warnings, foods to avoid, safe shapes and supervision reminders based on NHS guidance.
   5. A shopping list and batch-preparation suggestions.
   6. Clear substitutions for every proposed food.
   
   Mark anything that needs checking against the current NHS page. Do not give a diagnosis. If the baby has urgent or worrying symptoms after eating, direct me to NHS 111.

   Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.