1.
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to exchange nurse offspring.
This act makes the offspring of the two mothers pseudo siblings, which means they are not supposed to marry or fight between
each other. The relationship from exchange nursing is often stronger than the relationship between in-laws. This concept is
found in other Philippine ethnic groups also, not only in Islam.
2.
‘baby’ to nurse someone else's baby.
The child who was nursed cannot marry the biological children of the mother who nursed him or her. However, the biological
children of the nursing mother can marry siblings of the child who was nursed by their mother.