Index: /issm/trunk-jpl/src/c/solutionsequences/solutionsequence_newton.cpp
===================================================================
--- /issm/trunk-jpl/src/c/solutionsequences/solutionsequence_newton.cpp	(revision 27655)
+++ /issm/trunk-jpl/src/c/solutionsequences/solutionsequence_newton.cpp	(revision 27656)
@@ -40,5 +40,5 @@
 	femmodel->UpdateConstraintsx();
 
-	count=1;
+	count=0;
 	converged=false;
 
@@ -57,5 +57,5 @@
 
 		/*Solver forward model*/
-		if(count==1 || newton==2){
+		if(count==0 || newton==2){
 			SystemMatricesx(&Kff,&Kfs,&pf,&df,NULL,femmodel);
 			CreateNodalConstraintsx(&ys,femmodel->nodes);
@@ -87,20 +87,17 @@
 		Mergesolutionfromftogx(&ug,uf,ys,femmodel->nodes,femmodel->parameters);delete ys;
 		InputUpdateFromSolutionx(femmodel,ug);
+		count++;
 
 		/*Check convergence*/
 		convergence(&converged,Kff,pf,uf,old_uf,eps_res,eps_rel,eps_abs); 
 		delete Kff; delete pf;
-		if(converged==true){	
-			break;
-		}
+		if(converged==true) break;
 		if(count>=max_nonlinear_iterations){
 			_printf0_("   maximum number of Newton iterations (" << max_nonlinear_iterations << ") exceeded\n"); 
 			break;
 		}
-
-		count++;
 	}
 
-	if(VerboseConvergence()) _printf0_("\n   total number of iterations: " << count-1 << "\n");
+	if(VerboseConvergence()) _printf0_("\n   total number of iterations: " << count << "\n");
 
 	/*clean-up*/