That's amazing!  In your paper, you came back and said, "Yes, fetuses".  I'm glad you did because I was doing a double take!

Very often, I am skeptical of the way we, as a modern people, seem to revere without question ancient civilizations as better than us.  In this case, I think the way they preserve their children is a beautiful thing.  My assumption is that they did not shove their grief down; they went ahead and embraced it.