What's harder- starting a business or having kids?

Hello to you all, how are you all going? :-) I have a question that nobody I know can answer so I thought I would ask you all here. What do you honestly think is harder- going through the years of hard work persistence stage of starting a business, or having kids? Or are they about the same hard work as each other? I just want to know out of curiosity, because I am a girl who has spent the last 13 years going through the hard work persistence stage of learning all about business and money and starting businesses (lots of temporary failures of course on the journey, but as we all know, that's part of the journey to success and can't be skipped) :-) So, now that I have a business and have been through that very hard start up phase, all the ladies with kids are very thoroughly and very often telling me "That's nothing, WAIT till you have kids THEN you will see what hard work is!

So, I was thinking that maybe having kids and starting a business are about equal in the hardness stakes, or maybe having kids is harder, I don't know because I want to get married and have kids one day but I haven't yet. All my friends with kids say to me hahahha you think its hard starting a business "WAIT TILL YOU HAVE KIDS!!!" that's what they say exactly.

When I ask why they say well hahahah you wont sleep well for a few years and you will have to get up every 4 hours to feed it, then you can forget about going out and having fun for a few years cause you will be exhausted and broke.

Now here are my thoughts and again I don't know about what it's like to have kids, but here are my thoughts about starting a business:

1) when they say you won't sleep for a few years when you have kids, well when you start a business and you don't sleep well for about 10 years anyway right? Kids dont sleep well for say 2 or 3 years and they the whole family can sleep fantastically well, but being an entrepeneur means you have to get by with not enough sleep for sometimes10 years and more

2)when they say you have to get up every 4 hours to feed a baby, I was thinking business people and entrepeneurs are lucky to even GET 4 hours sleep at all! sometimes, especially during the start up phase of a business

3) when the say you won't be able to go out for ages because you will be tired and broke, business people and entrepeneurs don't go out for years either when they are going trhough the hard work persistence stage of starting up a business, and they are tired and broke for often 10 plus years, whereas by age 10 kids and families are happily going out to the movies and the beach and having fun

Plus I was thinking when you have kids, the systems are already laid out ready for you, by others who have gone before you. All you have to do is follow the systems. Go to hospital while they take the baby out, then they teach you step by step here this is how you feed them this is how you bath them, this is what you do and you can read any book or ask any mother how do do it and you don't have to set up any systems yourself. You walk into walmart and everything yo could possibly ever need for it has been researched and taken care of by somebody else. You can just casually cruise the aisles with a milkshake and pick out what you need at a cheap price- nappies, bottles, clothes that have been designed and made by somebody ele already. If a baby get sick you can take it to the hospital ad they lcan ook after it till it gets better. You get moral support off family and friends and other Mothers

With starting a business, you're on your own. You are also tired and exhausted but nobody cares. In fact, instead of moral support you are likely to get teased and jeered by everyone you know telling you to stop wasting your time. Instead of getting up every 4 hours and then after a period of time going back to bed, you often only GET 4 hours sleep. You have to work out ALL the systems by yourself, nobody is going to lay everything out ready for you. You have to work out your own business model, find your own suppliers, work out your own delivery stuff, go through a couple of failed businesses and the depression that causes, all by yourself. If your busienss gets sick, yo can't take it to a hospital and ask someone else to take care of it till it gets better, you have to deal with it yourself

I know that new mothers often get post natal depression, and I know too that new business people and entrepeneurs often get depression too, from all the temporary failing , studying and persistence trials they have to go through.

I know they are both very hard and I am not saying one is harder then the other because I know they are both exteremely hard jobs. I was just curious that's all. So, which do you all think is harder- is having kids harder because they have to be looked after 24 hours a day, whereas at least with a business you can switcjhoff your computer wheenver you need a break and forget about business for a few hours and go for a walk, where as with kids you have to be on alert 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Or are they about the same hard as each other?

Thanks heaps to you all for your time, I do appreciate it a lot :-)