I've been using extra large puppy pads. I put 1 upside down and 1 right side up where I put the water dish it absorbs will the water without leaking then 1 layer every where else.
She couldn't hold her head up so I researched it. Then started ad a very small bit of vitamin E to the mush I'd been feeding, within a couple days she was holding her head up and eating and drinking on her own.