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Belfast Magistrates Court heard Kevin Phillips has no memory of carrying out the attack on the woman.
The 34-year-old, of Sliabh Dubh Lane in the city, pleaded guilty to criminal damage and two counts of common assault.
Police called to the scene in the early hours of December 6 last year discovered the victim bruised with a large bump on her head.
The woman told officers that she had gone up to bed following a row with Phillips. She stated that he came up to the bedroom, kicked her to the stomach and then returned on a second occasion and punched her to the forehead, Crown lawyer Eoin Macdonald said.
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