Achieving Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5: Do every mother and child really count?

Is there any human experience that could be compared to the kaleidoscope of emotions and thoughts rushing through the soul of every mother just after the birth of her child? What measures would parents be willing to undertake if their child was seriously ill? How could they find consolation if their child died from preventable or easily treatable causes, such as pneumonia or diarrhea? Although I write this from the position of a mother from a developed country, it does not mean that mothers from lowand middle-income countries (LMIC) feel any differently when facing such a threat.