The Qur'anic version of the story of Moses, whose mother abandoned him so he would not be executed by the pharaoh as a male child born to Hebrews, highlights a mother's attachment to, and anxiety for, her child. God understands her grief and intervenes to make sure there is no other available wet nurse so that Moses is returned to his mother for nursing:

So we suggested to Moses' mother: Suckle him and when thou fearest for him, cast him into the sea, neither fearing nor grieving; for We are going to restore him to thee, and to make him one of the envoys. . . . On the morrow the heart of Moses' mother was empty . . . She said to her sister: "Follow, him"; so she watched him from afar, without their being aware. Now before this We had put a ban...