So lets say we want to make a TCP connection with a server

since in TCP we double the sending segments after receiving the acks because of tcp congestion control (before reaching the threshold), but does the  first packet sent by the sender in the 3 way handshake counts?

Basically what I'm asking is after receiving the ack from receiver in the second phase of 3 way handshake which one these we would do :

1) send the ack only

2) send ack + 1 segment

3) send ack + 2 segment