Calling all parents: It could be bad news for your baby if you are using some Graco Children’s Products. The company’s strollers, high chairs and cribs have been recalled by the millions this year for injuring, and in some cases, killing children. Since January, Graco has issued four voluntary recalls in cooperation with the CPSC to get dangerous baby products off the market.

Much has been written about laws and regulations governing infants’ car seats. Perhaps more should be done to protect children from defective products that should be examined for defects before they hit American markets. The Graco recalls are a case in point.

There were two Graco stroller recalls this year for major defects - one in January and another in October. Graco recalled some defective high chairs in March. In April, it recalled defective cribs.

Trouble first surfaced for Graco in January when the company voluntarily recalled 1.5 million strollers. The CPSC said if children stuck their fingers in the stroller’s canopy hinge mechanism as it was being opened or closed, they could lose their finger tips. The federal agency reported seven incidents of injuries to babies’ hands caused by the strollers: five fingertip amputations and two finger tip lacerations. The recall included Graco’s Passage, Alano, and Spree strollers and Travel Systems.

In March, the CPSC announced the second Graco recall. This time, it was high chairs that were suddenly dumping babies on the floor after screws that held the chairs’ legs together either loosened or fell out of their plastic brackets. That recall involved 1.2 million Graco Harmony High Chairs. The federal agency cited 464 reports in which the chairs tipped over. Twenty-four of the incidents left babies with bumps and bruises on their heads and bodies. One baby suffered a fractured arm.

In April, Graco voluntarily recalled 217,000 drop side cribs made by LaJobi because a hazardous gap between the crib’s mattress and the drop side posed a risk of suffocation and strangulation. The drop sides also could detach or fail to lock in place, causing the child to fall out of the crib. The CPSC cited six reports of children who fell out of cribs due to drop side failure and two reports of children trapped in the gap in danger of suffocation.

In the October stroller recall, the Consumer Products Safety Commission announced that four babies had died of strangulation in Graco’s Quattro and MetLife strollers. The deaths prompted a recall of two million Graco strollers. The recalled models include Graco Quattro Tour strollers made before November 2006 and MetroLife strollers made before July 2007. The strollers in the most recent recall have also caused other injuries: entrapment resulting in cuts and bruises and one case in which a child had difficulty breathing.

The Graco recalls are voluntary and have been issued in cooperation with the CPSC. Concerned parents can find a list of model numbers and more information about the Graco recalls at www.cpsc.gov. The government site also lists stores that have sold these  Graco products and tells parents and caregivers how to contact Graco and where to find model numbers of the defective products so they can be returned.