Thank you Mitch for your help. I've got the vetbed. I just went to pets at home to get it as I thought at least it will be one thing that I've sourced which is ready to go. Hoping the box and kit will arrive Tuesday, but either way Maisie is not going to have much time to think about whether she likes it or not!

I haven't yet received Book of the Bitch. That should come tomorrow. In the meantime I am reading lots of threads here. Am I right in say that if a puppy is breech, the bitch can't deliver normally?