No!

Baby J likes to grab pretty much everything around her and stick it in her mouth so she hears the word "no" a lot. However, so as not to overuse "no" my wife and I decided to say it only when it's a safety thing, to say like we mean it, and use some kind of redirection if she ignores us.

So now when she does something sort of bad but not dangerous to her I have to think of something else to say and I usually end up sounding like an idiot.

For example, if Baby J waddles over to a shelve of books in the library and proceeds to throw them all on the ground, I'll say something like, "Baby J! Books...uh...shelf...library..." or "librarians...unhappy...books on ground." By the time I formulate a proper verbal response she's wandered off to wreak havoc elsewhere and I'm left to reshelve and straighten the mess on the floor.

Hopefully, this strategy of using "no" only when it's really necessary will pay off when she's more independent. She'll listen to us if we say it and know we mean business. But in the meantime the folks in the library think I talk like Tarzan.