Confused on how to crate a new puppy, can anyone clarify how to do it properly?

[MrsTumbletap]

Hi all, we are due to get a puppy in 5 weeks and would like to know how to crate properly and I'm confused from reading conflicting things.

Can anyone help answer these questions:

Do I get a big crate and divide it when it's a pup, or a get a small crate at first?

Do I just put in towels and blanket stuff in there as there will be accidents at first and get the nice bed when it's housetrained?

Can I bring the crate upstairs and put it next to my bed so I am there to reassure it in the night? I couldn't bare it being downstairs and whining on its own the first few nights, or do I sleep downstairs with it?

Do I get up in the night when it whines and take it out to the toilet? Or do I get a bigger crate and put the bed at one end and a puppy pad at the other end, so it goes to the toilet on the pad in the night?

Advice appreciated

Personally I’ve never used puppy pads because you have to teach the puppy to use them for toileting and then they have to unlearn it. I have tiled floors that are easy to clean. Things like shopping i time around the puppy, so play, toilet and then as the puppy falls asleep, I go shopping. If I come back to pee/poo, I don’t say anything, just clean it with an enzyme cleaner like Simple Solution and keep going.

Great thank you!