When Michelle Watckins was eight months pregnant, she spotted a post on Craigslist advertising maternity clothing.
She contacted the seller, a woman called Dynel Lane, and was given an address to visit so that she could collect the clothes.
Speaking on Dr Phil, Michelle described how she entered the house and was given the maternity clothes.
She was just about to leave when Lane asked her to see some baby girls clothes - and shut the door.
It was then that the woman attacked.
An emotional Michelle said: "When she attacked me, she hit my back. It was very aggressive and hard, and I asked her, ‘Was there a spider on me?’ and she said, ‘Yeah, I think I got it.
"And then she continued. I turned around pulled my hands up and said ‘What are you doing?’ And said, ‘I just want to leave, I don’t want to hurt you.’
"I started walking toward the door, and she grabbed me very roughly, pushing me deeper into the house towards the bathroom. We jostled a little bit in the hallway as I tried to push my way back towards the door.
"She’s pushing me deeper into the house. Finally, we get all the way in front of the bathroom and she just lurches me sideways into the back bedroom. There are so many what if’s that go through your head.
“We struggle and she keeps telling me she’s that going to call the police on me. I pull out my phone and I said, ‘well I’ll call the police’ and that’s when the real struggle begins and she just throws me to the bed and tries to suffocate me with the pillow, with her hands and it had this nightmarish quality.
"She broke something over my head and I Just felt the liquid wash over me, and I just kept saying, ‘Why, why are you doing this? Why?’”
WATCH AN EXTRACT FROM HER INTERVIEW WITH DR PHIL BELOW:
While Michelle was unconscious, her baby daughter was ripped out of her womb.
Due to the violent nature of her birth, the tiny little girl - whom her parents named Aurora - died.
However, thanks to the efforts of hospital staff, Michelle miraculously survived.
Describing the moment that she and her husband held their tiny daughter in their arms, she said: "Dan and I thought she was the most beautiful thing we had ever seen.
"And I was just so grateful to have her even for her short and small life. I think she was perfect."
Lane pleaded not guilty to eight felony counts including first-degree unlawful termination of pregnancy, attempted first-degree murder and first-degree assault in July. She is set to go on trial in early 2016.
** The full interview with Michelle Wilkins will air on Dr Phil on Monday.**