Would like help with Wavy Ripple Blanket pattern

[myemerald]

I started the Wavy Ripple Blanket pattern, found on Yarnspirations.  The pattern is written a little differently than I am used to, but I think my big question is how many sc should I end up with on every other row.  I start with 139 chain, but the first row is a dc in the 4th chain from hook.  Then there are a lot of skipped stitches, and 2 stitches in 1 stitch, I just want to be sure I am ending up with the correct number when the row is all sc.  That will be the way I can check to be sure the wavy pattern turns out the way it's supposed to...I think. 

 

Thank you in advance for your help!

[magiccrochetfan]

count the tops of the stitches in the first row.  I beleive there will be 137---the turning chain there counts as a stitch.  

 

2 ch are used by the turning chain, and that leaves 137 chain.  there should be an increase for every decrease so skipped ch are compensated for by multiple sts into a ch.  

 

would have been nice if the pattern had given you the st counts!  

[myemerald]

Thank you very much magiccrochetfan!!!   Yes, I do much better with st counts at the end of the rows.