Vile Gary Ward attacked his heavily pregnant ex partner just days after being given a restraining order banning him from going near her.
Ward had already subjected his former girlfriend to violence and was ordered to stay away from her at the end of August last year.
But just 11 days later he launched another shameful attack after being allowed into her home when she was 28 weeks pregnant with his child.
Prosecutor Nick Lane told Newcastle Crown Court : "Having been allowed into the flat, the defendant assaulted her.
"He punched her repeatedly to the head and face, causing her to become dizzy and fall to the floor.
"She asked the defendant to stop as she was needing to use the bathroom.
"He allowed her into the bathroom but as she was sat on the toilet he assaulted her again."
The court heard when the victim ran from her home to get help, Ward hid in the base of her bed, and caused damage to it in the process, in a bid to avoid police.
The woman was admitted to the hospital maternity unit with soreness and swelling and said in a victim impact statement: "I can't believe Gary has assaulted me again, even worse that he punched me knowing I am 28 weeks pregnant.
"I need support to keep me and my baby safe from him.
"I am lying in a hospital bed feeling extremely sore and I am scared for my baby.
"I don't want Gary anywhere near me."
Mr Lane said Ward has previous convictions for violence against another partner and his own mother.
Ward, of Dundas Street, Sunderland, admitted breach of a restraining order, common assault and criminal damage and Recorder David Gordon sentenced Ward to 11 months behind bars.
The judge told Ward: "This was a defenceless woman, 28 weeks pregnant, carrying a child.
"Only by good fortune, no greater injury was caused to her or indeed her baby."
Liam O'Brien, defending, said it was a "complicated relationship" between the couple and the victim has been writing to Ward in prison and does not want a further restraining order to be put in place.
Mr O'Brien said Ward has spent five months on remand in HMP Durham where covid is spreading "like wildfire" and inmates spend more than 23 hours per day locked in cells.
