Kevin Wilson, 22, ambushed Malorie Bantala in the street after failing to convince her to abort their child because he was not ready to be a dad.
The teaching assistant recruited Taffari Grant, 17, to help him batter the mother of his child as she made her way home from a friend's house, where she had been planning a baby shower.
The pair, wearing motorcycle helmets, kicked and stamped on her stomach in a sustained two-minute attack as she curled into a ball and cried: "My baby."
The "callous" assault was so vicious she broke two fingers trying to protect her unborn son, who she had planned to name Joel.
Miss Bantala, 22, needed life-saving surgery following the attack, while her baby boy was delivered stillborn after an emergency caesarean at just 32 weeks.
A court heard the distraught mum-to-be was able to identify Wilson from his eyes and clothes during the assault in Peckham, South East London.
As the thugs fled on Grant's scooter she yelled: "I'm going to kill you Kevin."
In an impact statement read at the Old Bailey, Miss Bantala told how she would have brought up Joel to be "a hundred times the man" Wilson could ever be.
She said: "People often refer to me as the 'victim' of a horrific attack, which I honestly hate.
"I feel like I'm the only person who feels that I'm not the victim, the real victim of this attack is my son Joel — an innocent baby who did nothing bad to anyone.
"The moment Joel died inside of me I lost everything, literally. Life as I knew it no longer made any sense.
"I lost myself, I often thought I no longer had a purpose in the world.
"My attackers had the opportunity at a life, they've lived, they've loved, they've travelled, and they've had life-changing experiences. My son will never have that.
"They have taken a healthy life and taken a part of me that I will never get back. I want them to pay in return for what they have done, for killing a baby before it had any opportunity to live life."
Miss Bantala also described the unborn baby's funeral as "unbearable", adding: "I very nearly lost my womb. I don't think I would have been able to live if that had happened, if Kevin and the youth had taken from me my right to be a mother."
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