dumb question ...

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I have looked everywhere, but most sites about double crochet are about just how to make a dc...

instructions:
row 2:   ch 3 (counts as first dc), (skip 1 dc, dc) 4 times ...

when you start a new row with a dc, you skip the first stitch.  in this case, does it mean to skip the first two stitches? or just stay the same, take the usual path and skip only the first stitch since the ch counts as the first dc?

thanks.

this pattern is from Ruthie Marks' s Crochet in Bloom design - Blush Capelet